Poisson distribution - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distributionThe Poisson distribution poses two different tasks for dedicated software libraries: Evaluating the distribution , and drawing random numbers according to that distribution. Computing for given and is a trivial task that can be accomplished by using the standard definition of in terms of exponential, power, and factorial functions. However, the conventional definition of the Poisson distribution contains two terms that can easily overflow on computers: λ and k!. Th…