...Bader
The support by NASA Graduate Student Researcher Fellowship No. NGT-50951 is gratefully acknowledged.

...JáJá
Supported in part by NSF grant No. CCR-9103135 and NSF HPCC/GCAG grant No. BIR-9318183.

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We sample a mean zero, s.d. one, Gaussian curve at the center of p intervals equally spaced along [-3, 3]. The sample values are normalized to sum to n by multiplying each by n / sum of the p samples. The value of m can be verified empirically.

David A. Bader
dbader@umiacs.umd.edu