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Re: Exponential arrival distribution in Python

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Ricky <rakkitha263@gmail.com> writes:
> I am doing a project on traffic simulation. I want to introduce
> exponential arrival distribution to precede this task. Therefore I
> want write a code in python for exponential arrival distribution.

I've never heard of an "exponential arrival distribution" and googling
fails.  Do you mean an exponential distribution, that describes the
expected arrival times in a Poisson process?  Python's "random" module
has the random.expovariate function for that:

  http://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html

If you want an actual (discrete) Poisson distribution, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution#Generating_Poisson-distributed_random_variables

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Exponential arrival distribution in Python Ricky <rakkitha263@gmail.com> - 2012-11-28 13:34 -0800
  Re: Exponential arrival distribution in Python David Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> - 2012-11-28 17:52 -0500
  Re: Exponential arrival distribution in Python David Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> - 2012-11-28 17:55 -0500
  Re: Exponential arrival distribution in Python Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-28 15:25 -0800
  Re: Exponential arrival distribution in Python Albert Chun-Chieh Huang <alberthuang314@gmail.com> - 2012-11-29 07:29 +0800
  Re: Exponential arrival distribution in Python duncan smith <buzzard@invalid.invalid> - 2012-11-29 16:24 +0000

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