[Help-gsl] Re: Random number generation

[Rodney Sparapani]

Vibhuti Dave wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have attached the code that I am using to generate random numbers that
> have a Gaussian distribution with a mean value of 0.
> Ideally, if I generate these numbers and sum them up, the sum should be very
> close to 0 since it is a gaussian ditribution. I am using the function
> gsl_ran_gaussian to generate them. However, the mean value seems to be way
> off 0 when I run the program.
> Any idea why that might be happening?
> Thanks
> Vibhuti

What happens if you set mu = 0.?