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  Re: A small statistics question  
From: Mueen Nawaz
Date: 26 Nov 2007 22:58:02
Message: <474b95ca$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Anybody have any idea how I can make a program generate random numbers 
>> between 30 and 30,000, but so that "most" of the numbers generated are 
>> actually in the range 100 - 400?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution

	I'd have used a Gaussian - any particular reason to choose a Poisson?

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