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Hi, I am simulating an event that has 15 possible outcomes and I have a vector 'pout' that gives me the probability of each outcome - different outcomes have different probabilities. Does anyone know a simple way of simulating the outcome of my event? If my event had only two possible outcomes (0/1) I would pick a uniform random number between 0 and 1 and use it to choose between the two