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Re: Distribution

From	Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com>
Subject	Re: Distribution
Date	2012-03-20 12:00 +0000
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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

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco

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Distribution "prince.pangeni" <prince.ram85@gmail.com> - 2012-03-19 21:31 -0700
  Re: Distribution Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-03-20 10:15 +0100
  Re: Distribution Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-03-20 22:21 +1100
    Re: Distribution Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2012-03-20 12:00 +0000
    Re: Distribution Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-03-20 11:29 -0400
    Re: Distribution Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com> - 2012-03-20 18:00 +0100
    Re: Distribution Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-03-20 13:47 -0400
  Re: Distribution Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2012-03-20 12:52 +0000
  Re: Distribution duncan smith <buzzard@urubu.freeserve.co.uk> - 2012-03-20 20:19 +0000

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