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Galton Machine: Binomial Distribution

SEselim_tezel•Created October 25, 2016
Galton Machine: Binomial Distribution
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This project hopes to simulate the Galton Machine which generates a Binomial distribution. The distribution is Binomial as at each junction the ball have the equal likelihood of only TWO choices: moving left or right. If this process could be repeated with many balls for a very long time the famous Bell Shaped Curve of Normal distribution would appear demonstrating the de Moivre-Laplace case of the Central Limit Theorem.

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Thanks to the polymath Sir Francis Galton (a cousin of Charles Darwin) for the idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean_machine Thanks also to van_hellmich for giving me idea how to get started on this project in Scratch.

Project Details

Project ID127397096
CreatedOctober 25, 2016
Last ModifiedMarch 27, 2018
SharedOctober 25, 2016
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