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Could someone point me to a normalized random function for Java? The regular random function, as I understand it, doesn’t have the kind of behaviour that humans think of as random; however, I remember from my stat class that a normalized random function does.
This is for an autodidactic program that needs to randomly decide which question to display next.
If you are looking for random numbers that are “normally” distributed then see
java.util.Random#nextGaussian()