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Re: Gaussian Distribution Using Dice

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> Aug 03, 2004
• 455 views

cklester wrote:

> Juergen Luethje wrote:
>> 
>> cklester wrote:
>> 
>>> This looks good, but, again, I don't understand the last math part...
>>>
>>>    http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/52207.html
>> 
>> This is not a Gaussian Distribution, BTW. A Gaussian Distribution is a
>> continuous distribution, whereas this is a discrete distribution.
> 
> I'm glad we have geniuses on hand in the Euforum! :)

Me too. 
But that has nothing got to do with the difference between continuous and
discrete probability distributions. This difference is explained in any
statistical textbook on, say, page 23.

>> However, the probabilities of sums on multiple dice *approach* a
>> Gaussian distribution as the number of dice is increased.
> 
> Yeah, I knew that. :P

So the only remaining mystery is: Who wrote "Gaussian Distribution"
in the name of this thread. And why? 

>> When you want to calculate the number of ways or probabilities for only
>> a few cases, this code might be faster than the code provided by Lewis.
>> Please check yourself.
> 
> I haven't run any benchmarks on them yet, but your code works great!
> 
> Thank you!

Regards,
   Juergen