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Generate 1 million random numbers from the normal distribution with a set mu and sigma
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normal_variate.py
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
import random as r
sampleSize = 1000000 #1 million
mu = 1
sigma = 5
r.seed()
output = []
for i in range(sampleSize):
output.append(r.normalvariate(mu,sigma))
plt.hist(output,bins=100)
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