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11 Oct 2024 11:13:29 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A small statistics question  
From: Invisible
Date: 27 Nov 2007 04:21:10
Message: <474be186$1@news.povray.org>
Mueen Nawaz wrote:
> 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?

100 and 400 are both nearer to 30 than to 30,000?


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