Random number from normal distribution in C++

Question

As a complete beginner to C++, I would like to generate a random number from a normal distribution.

With the following code (derived from this post), I am able to d

Answer 1

Use a seed to initialize your generator. Here I am using a time-based seed.

#include 
#include 
#include 

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    unsigned seed = chrono::system_clock::now().time_since_epoch().count();
    default_random_engine generator(seed);
    normal_distribution distribution(0.0, 1.0);

    cout << distribution(generator);
    return 0;
}