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Re: [Bug-gsl] error in gsl_ran_poisson (II)
From: |
Brian Gough |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-gsl] error in gsl_ran_poisson (II) |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:53:14 +0000 |
César Enrique García Dabó writes:
> 1) Find enclosed an attachment with a test program. The problem arises for
> mu>4e9, instead of 4e10 as pointed in previous mail.
Hello,
Thanks for the bug report.
The return values from the discrete distributions are unsigned
integers, which have a maximum value of 2^32 = 4.29x10^9 on 32-bit
machines. Beyond this the algorithm will not work due to overflow.
I will make a note in the manual about it.
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best regards,
Brian Gough
Network Theory Ltd,
Publishing the GSL Manual - http://www.network-theory.co.uk/gsl/manual/