Equation: Generating an Exponential distributed random number

Generating an Exponential distributed random number

created by:

Thijs van den Berg (http://www.sitmo.com)

This transform is used to generate a exponential distributed samples from a uniform distributed variable.

X	Exponential distributed variable
	Exponential distribution parameter
U	Uniform random number between 0 and 1

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