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NAME

horsekicks

VERSION

0.13 (2018-07-03)

SYNOPSIS

horsekicks [-m mean] [-g how_many] [-s seed] [-1]

horsekicks [--help [ja] ] [--version]

DESCRIPTION

Generates Poisson random numbers (random variables obeying a Poisson distribution).

OPTION

-g N

How many random numbers you want in an integer number. "Inf" can be specified. Default value: 8.

-m N

The population mean (average). Default value: 1.0

-s N

Random seed. The residual divided by 2*32 is essential.

-1

No secondary information such as random seed on STDERR.

--help

Help message similar appeared here.

--help ja

Japanese manual of this program is shown.

--version

The version information of this program is displayed.

REMARKS

The calculation time costs proportional to the specified population mean. And the population mean should be less than 700 because the internal calculation by this program causes exp(-750) = 0 .

AUTHOR

Toshiyuki Shimono bin4tsv@gmail.com

HISTORY

This program has been made since 2016-07-14 (Wed) as a part of TSV hacking toolset for table data.