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Binomial variable does not support too many trials #2

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pelegm opened this issue Sep 23, 2014 · 1 comment
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Binomial variable does not support too many trials #2

pelegm opened this issue Sep 23, 2014 · 1 comment
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pelegm commented Sep 23, 2014

The following code:

b = dists.Binomial(10000, 0.1)

raises the following error:

--> 136         return 1.0 * choose(n, k) * p ** k * (1 - p) ** (n - k)
OverflowError: long int too large to convert to float
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pelegm commented Oct 19, 2014

Perhaps doing this symbolically will solve this issue; see #5.

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