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On 3/20/12 11:21 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
> "prince.pangeni"<prince.ram85@gmail.com>  writes:
>
>>     I am doing a simulation project using Python. In my project, I want
>> to use some short of distribution to generate requests to a server.
>
> What is a distribution? That term already means something in Python
> jargon, and it doesn't match the rest of your use case.
>
> So what do you mean by “distribution”? Maybe we can find a less
> confusing term.

Judging from the context, he means a probability distribution.

-- 
Robert Kern

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