Re: random numbers according to user defined distribution ??



Alex <axel.kowald@xxxxxx> writes:
I wonder if it is possible in python to produce random numbers
according to a user defined distribution?

That can mean a lot of things. The book "Numerical Recipes" (there
are editions for various languages, unfortunately not including Python
last time I looked) has some discussion about how to do it.

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