The complexity of generating an exponentially distributed variate

DOI10.1016/0196-6774(86)90014-3MaRDI QIDQ3768393zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nasser Saheb, Philippe Flajolet

Publication date 1986

Published in Journal of Algorithms (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00076400/file/RR-0159.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

exponentially distributed variate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random number generation in numerical analysis (65C10) Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity (68Q25)

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