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You could use the binomial distribution to approximate a normal distribution with only integer entries (because of the Central Limit Theorem). You will have to relate the mean of the binomial to the mean of the normal distribution. However, you can not get both the mean to be m and variance to be sigma exactly for any m and sigma, since for the binomial distribution they are closely related.
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