Fix poisson deviate for expected values ~> LONG_MAX #29
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This patch causes rk_poisson to simply return the mean value of the Poissonian when the distribution cannot be supported by the high-order bits of the long integer type. This patch simply checks whether the mean value is less than LONG_MAX - 10 * sqrt(LONG_MAX) before actually generating a random deviate. This ensures that at least 20*sigma (sigma=sqrt(mean value)) of width for the distribution--this should be plenty of width.