Generating Random numbers to conform a distribution

[J. Landman Gay]

I don't have an answer. But apparently it's a common problem:

https://xkcd.com/2626/

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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On June 7, 2022 3:53:37 PM David V Glasgow via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Quite a lot of stats and maths packages offer a feature whereby the N, the 
> Mean and the SD are variables specified by the user, and N random numbers 
> are then generated with the required mean and SD.
...
> In general terms, how do they do this?