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Re:Alchemist – A non-deterministic programming language base... by pacaro on Monday June 10, 2019 @10:33PM (#20152647)
Adding relative weights to each rule would be a simple extension to the grammar. If only integer weights were permitted it could be a simple preprocessor.
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Re:Alchemist – A non-deterministic programming language base... by a-nikolaev on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @12:12PM (#20156746)
Grammar yes, but sampling reaction with appropriate rates makes the choice of the next reaction a little harder than arbitrary selection.

The time to each possible event must be drawn from the exponential distribution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_distribution), and the event with the smallest waiting time fires next.

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