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From: Barak.Pearlmutter@scr.siemens.com (Barak Pearlmutter)
Subject: Re: Is Garbage Collection faster?
In-Reply-To: hbaker@netcom.com's message of Thu, 12 Oct 1995 22:09:34 GMT
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In article <hbaker-1210951409350001@10.0.2.15> hbaker@netcom.com (Henry Baker) writes:
>
>  In article <45jhjo$cdd@camelot.ccs.neu.edu>, will@ccs.neu.edu (William D
>  Clinger) wrote:
>
>  > A sum of exponential distributions is an exponential distribution,
>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>  Is this true??

No, certainly not.

A weighted sum of exponentials is an inverse Laplace transform.
