Research Article

A Hardware Efficient Random Number Generator for Nonuniform Distributions with Arbitrary Precision

Table 3

Maximum approximation errors for different distributions.

Distribution Symmetry Maximum absolute error

Normal Point 0.000383397
Log-normal (0, 1) None 0.00233966
Gamma (0, 1) None 0.00787368
Laplace (1) Point 0.000901326
Exponential (1) None 0.000787368
Rayleigh (1) None 0.000300666