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Also Known As	Poisson law of large numbers

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An illustration of a flying bomb is shown above a table comparing actual and predicted numbers of London districts with different counts of bomb hits, illustrating the Poisson distribution.

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Siméon-Denis Poisson

Siméon-Denis Poisson

French mathematician

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