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Recreational Mathematics

Recreational Mathematics Session I #2

Subevent of Recreational Mathematics Session I

Couch 325

Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Starts at: 2025-02-28 02:20PM

Ends at: 2025-02-28 02:35PM

How Many Dice Do You Need for a Bell Curve?

Jeffrey Clark ⟨clarkj@elon.edu⟩

Abstract:

The Central Limit Theorem is one of the most fundamental principles in probability, stating that the probability distribution of the average of independent measurements of the same random variable has the ubiquitous bell curve as a limit as the sample size increases. This talk will use different numbers of fair dice to explore this convergence as one of the easiest examples of that convergence if not the quickest.

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