Task

Generate a collection filled with   1000   normally distributed random (or pseudo-random) numbers
with a mean of   1.0   and a   standard deviation   of   0.5



Many libraries only generate uniformly distributed random numbers. If so, you may use one of these algorithms.



Related task

   Standard deviation


RANDOMIZE TIMER 'seeds random number generator with the system time
pi = 3.141592653589793#
DIM a(1 TO 1000) AS DOUBLE
CLS
FOR i = 1 TO 1000
   a(i) = 1 + SQR(-2 * LOG(RND)) * COS(2 * pi * RND)
NEXT i
