Distribution
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The word distribution has several meanings
- In mathematics (and other exact sciences), it talks about in what way a certain number of numbers are spread over an interval. See distribution (mathematics)
- In Statistics, it refers to the way a certain number of samples can be assigned to different categories, see Frequency distribution
- In Economics, it talks about getting a product from the producer to the client. see distribution (economics).
- In Computer science, it may refer to the practice of allocating a number of tasks to different machines, scattered over a network. See distributed computing
- With Software, a distribution is something that puts different applications in the same package. see Linux distribution for an example.