"ziggurat algorithm" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: ziggurat algorithms [plural]
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  1. (statistics) An algorithm for pseudorandom number sampling, relying on an underlying source of uniformly-distributed random numbers as well as computed tables. Categories (topical): Statistics
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