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+// Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// W.Hormann, G.Derflinger:
+// "Rejection-Inversion to Generate Variates
+// from Monotone Discrete Distributions"
+// http://eeyore.wu-wien.ac.at/papers/96-04-04.wh-der.ps.gz
+
+package rand
+
+import "math"
+
+// A Zipf generates Zipf distributed variates.
+type Zipf struct {
+	r            *Rand
+	imax         float64
+	v            float64
+	q            float64
+	s            float64
+	oneminusQ    float64
+	oneminusQinv float64
+	hxm          float64
+	hx0minusHxm  float64
+}
+
+func (z *Zipf) h(x float64) float64 {
+	return math.Exp(z.oneminusQ*math.Log(z.v+x)) * z.oneminusQinv
+}
+
+func (z *Zipf) hinv(x float64) float64 {
+	return math.Exp(z.oneminusQinv*math.Log(z.oneminusQ*x)) - z.v
+}
+
+// NewZipf returns a Zipf variate generator.
+// The generator generates values k ∈ [0, imax]
+// such that P(k) is proportional to (v + k) ** (-s).
+// Requirements: s > 1 and v >= 1.
+func NewZipf(r *Rand, s float64, v float64, imax uint64) *Zipf {
+	z := new(Zipf)
+	if s <= 1.0 || v < 1 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	z.r = r
+	z.imax = float64(imax)
+	z.v = v
+	z.q = s
+	z.oneminusQ = 1.0 - z.q
+	z.oneminusQinv = 1.0 / z.oneminusQ
+	z.hxm = z.h(z.imax + 0.5)
+	z.hx0minusHxm = z.h(0.5) - math.Exp(math.Log(z.v)*(-z.q)) - z.hxm
+	z.s = 1 - z.hinv(z.h(1.5)-math.Exp(-z.q*math.Log(z.v+1.0)))
+	return z
+}
+
+// Uint64 returns a value drawn from the Zipf distribution described
+// by the Zipf object.
+func (z *Zipf) Uint64() uint64 {
+	if z == nil {
+		panic("rand: nil Zipf")
+	}
+	k := 0.0
+
+	for {
+		r := z.r.Float64() // r on [0,1]
+		ur := z.hxm + r*z.hx0minusHxm
+		x := z.hinv(ur)
+		k = math.Floor(x + 0.5)
+		if k-x <= z.s {
+			break
+		}
+		if ur >= z.h(k+0.5)-math.Exp(-math.Log(k+z.v)*z.q) {
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	return uint64(k)
+}