[Tutor] Exponentially distributed random number generation

Terry Carroll carroll@tjc.com
Mon Feb 3 13:36:12 2003


On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, zywy wrote:

> Does anyone know whether there is a python function to generate
> exponentially distributed random numbers?

I'm not sure, but given the timestamp on this message, I wouldn't use your
system's clock as a seed value!

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