Erlang may refer to:

Science and technology

Erlang (programming language) Erlang ( ) is a general-purpose, concurrent, functional programming language, and a garbage-collected runtime system. The term Erlang is used interchangeably with Erlang/OTP, or Open Telecom Platform (OTP), which consists of the Erlang ru ...

, a programming language *

Erlang (unit) The erlang (symbol E) is a dimensionless unit that is used in telephony as a measure of offered load or carried load on service-providing elements such as telephone circuits or telephone switching equipment. A single cord circuit has the capaci ...

, a unit to measure traffic in telecommunications or other domains *

Erlang distribution The Erlang distribution is a two-parameter family of continuous probability distributions with support x \in exponential distribution">exponential variables with mean 1/\lambda each. Equivalently, it is the distribution of the time until the '' ...

, a probability distribution describing the time between events

Places

Mount Erlang Mount Erlang () is a mountain in Sichuan province, China. Located 50 kilometers west of Tianquan County, Sichuan, at an altitude of 3437 meters, and 172 kilometers away from Chengdu, it is the watershed of Qingyi River and Dadu River, which i ...

, a mountain in China * Erlang railway station, on the Chinese Qinghai–Tibet Railway

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Agner Krarup Erlang Agner Krarup Erlang (1 January 1878 – 3 February 1929) was a Danish mathematician, statistician and engineer, who invented the fields of traffic engineering and queueing theory. By the time of his relatively early death at the age of 51, Er ...

(1878–1929), mathematician and engineer after whom several concepts are named *

Erlang Shen Erlang Shen () or Erlang, also known as the Lord of Sichuan (), is a Chinese god with a third truth-seeing eye in the middle of his forehead. Erlang Shen may be a deified version of several semi-mythical folk heroes who helped regulate China' ...

, a Chinese deity

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