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There's probably a CPAN module that does it. But there's also some interesting code in a column I wrote in 1996. Check it out.

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update: Ahh yes, and that same code (or similar code) was used in my "spew" program.
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Re: Weighted random numbers generator
by crenz (Priest) on Mar 13, 2003 at 18:32 UTC

    There's probably a CPAN module that does it.

    I have a similar problem and already searched CPAN, but couldn't find anything. Any ideas how such an algorithm might be called?

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      I'm not sure the algorithm would have a special name.

      It's just a name to generate "weighted uniform" distribution.
      I hope that the nodes in this thread helped you accomplish what you want - there is the initial solution and many improvements and ideas.
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