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Foil 5 Shape of Frequency Plot

From Java Academy:Polls and Throwing Dice NPAC Java Academy February--April 99 -- Mar 20 1999. by Geoffrey Fox
1 Note that the histogram is quite a pretty bell shape and in fact there is a fancy theory called the "central limit theorem" which derives the shape as a so-called Gaussian.
2 There is a separate discussion of Gaussians on the web site
3 +24
4 -24
5 700 Mean
6 One finds a percentage error or standard deviation of 2.4%.
7 10% of events are in upper yellow region > 3% larger than mean
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