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authorRaymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>2020-08-01 08:18:26 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-08-01 08:18:26 (GMT)
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bpo-41421: Algebraic simplification for random.paretovariate() (GH-21695)
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@@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ class Random(_random.Random):
# Jain, pg. 495
u = 1.0 - self.random()
- return 1.0 / u ** (1.0 / alpha)
+ return u ** (-1.0 / alpha)
def weibullvariate(self, alpha, beta):
"""Weibull distribution.