Galton's Probability Machine: The Quincunx


Several folks out there in WWW land have posted electronic versions of Galton's probability machine. Check these out. Think about the relationship between the binomial distribution and the normal distribution. You could probably find more Quincunx demonstrations on the web using a search engine, but these few should give you the idea.

by David Krider at the RAND Corporation
from a Dutch site

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