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Line 13: # Otherwise, return {{mvar\|K<sub>i</sub>}}. An alternative formulation of the probability table, proposed by Marsaglia et al.<ref name=marsaglia>{{Citation \|first1=George \|last1=Marsaglia \|author-link1=George Marsaglia \|first2=Wai Wan \|last2=Tsang \|first3=Jingbo \|last3=Wang \|title=Fast Generation of Discrete Random Variables \|journal=Journal of Statistical Software \|date=2004-07-12 \|volume=11 \|issue=3 \|pages=1–11 \|doi=10.18637/jss.v011.i03 \|doi-access=free \|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/~~5142858_Fast_Generation_of_Discrete_Random_Variables/fulltext/0e5fcf01f0c404bcbfaaa888/Fast-Generation-of-Discrete-Random-Variables.pdf~~5142858}}</ref> as the '''square histogram method''', avoids the computation of {{mvar\|y}} by instead checking the condition {{math\|1=''x'' < ''V<sub>i</sub>'' = (''U<sub>i</sub>'' + ''i'' − 1)/''n''}} in the third step. ==Table generation==