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From: Reinert Korsnes <reinert.korsnes@chello.no>
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Subject: Discrete random with given distribution ?
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:10:48 +0200
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Hi,

Is it under Ada any "natural" way to generate random
elements of enumeration type (for example (a,b,c))
and with a given non-uniform probability distribution ?

I.e. so for example "a" is produced by probability 1/2
and "b" and "c" both with probability 1/4 ?

(Yes, I can do it via Float_Random, but the code looks ugly). 

reinert