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Recreational Mathematics

Recreational Mathematics Session I #2

Subevent of Recreational Mathematics Session I

Couch 325

Times: 2025 Feb 28 from 02:20PM to 02:35PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))

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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