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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:29:48 -0400
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Subject: Re: [math] Re: binomial random generator
From: Ahmed Abdeen Hamed <ahmed.elmasri@gmail.com>
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Thanks Phil! This was most helpful and it has gotten so much faster than
using the JDK generator. More importantly, I tried 10 experiments and they
didn't break. I have 250 experiments that they must all pass. I will let you
know if I need more assistance. For now, thank you and to everyone who
contributed to this chain!

Ahmed

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:58 AM, Phil Steitz <phil.steitz@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/23/11 9:51 PM, Ahmed Abdeen Hamed wrote:
> > Hi Phil,
> >
> > Thank you for your response. The answer you provided gave me only half of
> > what I need. The other half is how to get this boolean value with a given
> > probability much the same as nextBonimial?
>
> Sorry, I misread your code.  To do that, I would just use
> gen.nextDouble() with a test against Simulation.M_RATE as the
> commented out code does.
>
> Phil
>

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