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Subject: Re: Discrete random with given distribution ?
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tmoran:

>Why not just use your second method (summing probabilities till
>you hit a certain level) to calculate, at run time, the population
>of a lookup table, then use the first method to speedily index into
>it to pick a random element.

And why not replace the loop by the traversal of a binary
tree ? (I just don't like that lookup table...)
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