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>Thats the plan -- either get a dll, or build one. It might be that a foxpro function would also run quickly enough. I hope I can avoid fancy but we will see. I think the most I typically after to generate in an afternoon is about a million.
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>At any rate I need to justify the effort. Most people don't sense the danger here.

Have you looked at reading a dump from a stat package ? I would either go with a very well recommended public open source solution for the function itself or one of the larger mathmatical/statistical packages.

thomas