From a3169dfee18b158be0bd656ccfcebd82f6f0e7c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul A. Bristow" Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:17:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Corrected graphs legend and title, and removed misleading accuracy info. [SVN r50850] --- doc/sf_and_dist/distributions/pareto.qbk | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/sf_and_dist/distributions/pareto.qbk b/doc/sf_and_dist/distributions/pareto.qbk index ba5499168..4e7e2c417 100644 --- a/doc/sf_and_dist/distributions/pareto.qbk +++ b/doc/sf_and_dist/distributions/pareto.qbk @@ -77,10 +77,11 @@ The supported domain of the random variable is \[scale, [infin]\]. [h4 Accuracy] -The pareto distribution is implemented in terms of the +The Pareto distribution is implemented in terms of the standard library `exp` functions plus __expm1 -and as such should have very low error rates -except when probability is very close to unity. +and so should have very small errors, usually only a few epsilon. + +If probability is near to unity (or the complement of a probability near zero) see also __why_complements. [h4 Implementation]