A probability distribution demonstration at the St. Louis Science Center

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St. Louis Science center has a pretty neat physical demonstration of a probability distribution.

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  1. Rick Heil December 28, 2013 at 6:47 pm

    Very cool.

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  2. Zaine Ridling December 28, 2013 at 7:25 pm

    Oh that's wickedly clever.

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  3. Vincent Litchard December 28, 2013 at 11:17 pm

    Pachinko, migrating to the West

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  4. Phillip Adkins December 29, 2013 at 2:27 am

    It's not a normal distribution – it's a binomial distribution

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  5. Tomáš Houška December 29, 2013 at 11:09 am

    This is the Galton box, which is used to demonstrate that binomial distribution is an approximation to the normal distribution (i.e. Bell curve).

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