Generating a gaussian distribution with only positive numbers?

You may be looking for log-normal distribution, as David Norman suggested, or maybe exponential binomial or some other distribution. If you have an algorithm to generate one distribution, it is probably not good for generating numbers conforming to another distribution. But only you know how your numbers are really distributed.

First, you can't generate only positive values from a Gaussian distribution.

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