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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.commons.math3.random;
+
+/**
+ * This interface represent a normalized random generator for scalars. Normalized generator provide
+ * null mean and unit standard deviation scalars.
+ *
+ * @since 1.2
+ */
+public interface NormalizedRandomGenerator {
+
+    /**
+     * Generate a random scalar with null mean and unit standard deviation.
+     *
+     * <p>This method does <strong>not</strong> specify the shape of the distribution, it is the
+     * implementing class that provides it. The only contract here is to generate numbers with null
+     * mean and unit standard deviation.
+     *
+     * @return a random scalar with null mean and unit standard deviation
+     */
+    double nextNormalizedDouble();
+}