Re: [Boost-users] trouble with boost/random/poisson_distribution and large lambda

AMDG On 06/22/2011 03:49 PM, Michael King wrote:

Hello,

I am new to the boost mailing list, so I apologize before hand if this is not the appropriate forum for this question.

I have been using boost/random recently and have encountered what appears to be a problem with poisson variate generators with large lambda values.

The random values can't seem to get much higher than 800 regardless of what value lambda is.

poisson_distribution has been completely reimplemented in 1.47. This problem appears to be gone. I tested your code with MSVC 10 and the current trunk (r74137).

For example:

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In Christ, Steven Watanabe