From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6e2278eaed9619d6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-13 15:23:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.us.prserv.net!prserv.net!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D091B66.B8F0933F@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Discrete random with given distribution ? References: <3D08AB63.6AF60F95@despammed.com> <3D08C94B.A50AECFE@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 17:23:34 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1024007032 151.168.144.162 (Thu, 13 Jun 2002 17:23:52 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 17:23:52 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25908 Date: 2002-06-13T17:23:34-05:00 List-Id: > This can never return C. F <= 1.0, and for many generators, F < 1.0. > Also, if F = 0.9, this returns A. > > I suspect you need > > F < Threshold (I) I suspect you're right. Coding error. The (intended) method is valid. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau