LINQ and Financial Simulation

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I just started playing around with LINQ seriously, and I really love some of the features incorporated, like the Enumerable.Range() function and how it can be used for integer programming.

Here's a simple function for generating lognormal distributions (could be useful for financial engineering).

Hope you're enjoying the samples,

Jonathan Starr

 public List<double> GenerateLogNormalDistribution(int numberOfTimes, double mean, double standardDeviation)

{

    Random randomGenerator = new Random();

    var randomNumbers = from theNumbers in Enumerable.Range(1,

        numberOfTimes).Select(x => randomGenerator.Next(1,

  1000)/1000.0)

        select theNumbers;

    List<double> results = new List<double>();

    randomNumbers.ToList().ForEach

        (x => results.Add(mean + (standardDeviation * (Math.Sqrt(-2 * Math.Log(x)) * Math.Cos(6.28 * x)))));

    return results;

}