HW 9

due 9am Tuesday, April 22, 2008
1. Find a way of generating exponentially distributed random numbers on (0,infinity),
i.e. generate numbers v whose density is rho(v) = e-v. 
Check your method by generating a few thousand such numbers and
making a histogram of them using histogram.maple.txt.

2. Which student presentation at the Celebration of Academic Excellence
did you like, and why? (No more than 1 page!)