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Re: Dice


  • Subject: Re: Dice
  • From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:39:58 -0500

On 10/26/2004 13:28, "Graff" <email@hidden> wrote:

>>> So no, it doesn't seem to be perfect but it's probably good enough
>>> for most applications.
>>
>> Out of curiosity, what would the std deviation be if the random was
>> perfect?
>
> A perfectly even distribution would be for every value to show up the
> same number of times.  In that case the std deviation would be 0.

However, a perfectly even distribution is not, by definition, perfectly
random, or even close.

john

--
Experience has taught me that the thick headed cling to their stupidity as
if it was a giant bag of
gold.

Ms. Duh, aka 'picky'


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