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[mnirahd]

Hi,

I need to write a piece of code that check if event has occurred on the basis of a given probability. For example, given 0.0025 is probability for event A to occur. How can I simulate it in C/C++ code.

Thanks,

Munir

[zoranh]

You simulate that by using geometric probability: if desired probability is a/b (e.g. 0.0025 = 1/400), then event occurs when discrete variable X uniformly distributed over set {0, 1, ..., b - 1} is less than a.

In your example, event occurs if (rand() % 400) == 0.