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In connection with the Bernoulli factory post of last week, Richard Brent arXived a short historical note recalling George Forsythe’s algorithm for simulating variables with density
since the probability of this event is
its expectation is
Filed under: R, Statistics Tagged: Bernoulli factory, George Forsythe, John von Neumann, Monte Carlo methods, normal distribution, series expansion, simulation
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