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minor bug in IDL 5 poisson random numbers? [message #12615]

Mon, 24 August 1998 00:00

Bruce Macintosh
Messages: 5
Registered: March 1997

Junior Member

The statement

test=randomn(seed,10,poisson=50)

seems to generate a
% Program caused arithmetic error: Floating underflow

on my ultrasparc/solaris system about half the time. Presumably this is
just
some minor math thing - something in an exponential is getting very
small -
but it's faintly disconcerting and causes me to worry about the validity
of
the results. Does anyone have any comments?

Bruce Macintosh
bmac@igpp.llnl.gov

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