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i've been looking around, but i'm not sure how to do it. i've found this page which, in the last paragraph, says: A simple generator for random numbers taken from a Poisson distribution is obtained using this simple recipe: if x 1 , x 2 , ... is a sequence of random numbers with uniform distribution between zero and one, k is the first integer for which the product x 1 · x 2 · ... · x k+1 < e -λ i've found another page describing how to generate binomial numbers, but i think it is using an approximation of poisson generation, which doesn't help me. For example, consider binomial random numbers. A binomial random number is the number of heads in N tosses of a coin with probability p of a heads on any single toss. If you generate N uniform random numbers on the interval (0,1) and count the number less than p, then the count is a binomial random number with parameters N and p. i know there are libraries to do it, but i can't use them, only the standard uniform generators provided by the language (java, in this case).

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