in reply to help finding mean, numbers above and below mean from an exponential distribution

By adding use strict, fixing the errors flagged by strictures, fixing the indentation and using Perl rather than C I get the following (which may or may not do what you want):

#!usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my $ntotal; for (1 .. 5000) { my $k = 25; my $N = 10000; my @cls; my $total = 0; while ($k >= 2) { my $mean = (4 * $N) / ($k * ($k - 1)); my $time = (-log (rand) * $mean); $ntotal += $time; push @cls, $time; --$k; } my $nmean = $ntotal / 5000; print "$nmean\n"; my @low = grep {$_ <= $nmean} @cls; my $nLow = scalar @low; my $hig = scalar (5000 - $nLow); print "$nLow\n"; print "$hig\n"; }

Prints:

2.37332066086488 0 5000 6.21051651542152 1 4999 8.59464183062829 0 5000 ...

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