094. Impure elemental procedure can be used to generate array of non-uniform variates#

topic: Procedures

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The RANDOM_NUMBER intrinsic returns a scalar or an array of uniform variates. An impure elemental subroutine can do the same for normal variates, given an algorithm to generate a single normal variate, possibly using RANDOM_NUMBER.

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