David Arnold wrote:

Hi,

Does anyone have any strategies for drawing random numbers from

various statistics distributions in Metapost? For example, say,

drawing 100 random numbers from a beta distribution?

Assuming you are using mkiv: create a lua function and use its
calculated results to create the metapost code. Metapost only knows
about uniformdeviate and normaldeviate, and metapost is not a good
language to program mathematics in.

Best wishes,
Taco
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