[R] rnorm??

[Scholz, Fritz]

I am wondering whether there is a bug in rnorm.
When generating rnorm(1000000) and counting 
the cases > 4 and the cases < (-4) I get rather
unexpectedly low counts for the latter. The problem goes away
when using qnorm(runif(1000000)).

Fritz Scholz, PhD
Applied Statistics Group
Boeing Phantom Works
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