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Day 5: Poisson Distribution I

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Objective
In this challenge, we learn about Poisson distributions. Check out the Tutorial tab for learning materials!

Task
A random variable, , follows Poisson distribution with mean of . Find the probability with which the random variable is equal to .

Input Format

The first line contains 's mean. The second line contains the value we want the probability for:

2.5
5

If you do not wish to read this information from stdin, you can hard-code it into your program.

Output Format

Print a single line denoting the answer, rounded to a scale of decimal places (i.e., format).

Author

AvmnuSng

Difficulty

Easy

Max Score

30

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