On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
> Josef,
>
> This is ticket #896 from two years ago. IIRC, there was some more recent
> discussion on the list of some of these. Do you know what the current state
> of these distributions is?

I don't have any information on these and I don't remember any
discussion (and a quick search didn't find anything). I never looked
at the integer overflow problem, besides reading the ticket.

All 3 distributions are used in scipy.stats and tested for some regular values.

(my not very strong opinion: for consistency with the other
distributions, I would go with Robert's approach of rejecting overflow
samples. I don't know any application where the truncation would have
a significant effect.
In scipy.stats I switched to returning floats instead of integers for
ppf, because we need inf and nans.)

BTW: If you are fixing things in np.random, then depreciating and
renaming pareto as we discussed recently on the list would help reduce
some confusion. I don't think we filed a ticket.