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Recommend adding a release note item to version 1.64 that the exponential distribution significantly changed

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Hi,

We are using the exponential distribution from this library in our simulation software and recently upgraded from boost 1.60 to 1.76. I noticed significant result changes in our unit tests and investigated the difference. I just found out that version 1.64 of the exponential distribution code has been significantly modified and that it causes the difference in our test results.

Long story short, I suggest that you add a line in the release notes of release 1.64 that the exponential distribution changed and could break results from previous versions.

Kind regards

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