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Re:Dark Matter Detector Records One of the Rarest Events Kno... by fspeech on Saturday April 27, 2019 @04:20PM (#19767415)
Poisson distribution is the limit of having infinite particles around.
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Re:Dark Matter Detector Records One of the Rarest Events Kno... by contravariant on Saturday April 27, 2019 @06:10PM (#19767934)
It is, although the only difference is that the rate of this particular process changes after the first decay. Which makes it more of a continuous time Markov process, but the general idea is similar.
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