POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Smooth random : Re: Smooth random Server Time
10 Aug 2024 23:20:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Smooth random  
From: PoD
Date: 11 Oct 1999 12:54:01
Message: <380217A6.4861EB83@merlin.net.au>
Nieminen Juha wrote:
> 
> Margus Ramst <mar### [at] peakeduee> wrote:
> : AFAIK, this is normal distribution.
> 
>   No, normal distribution is distributed in the form e^(-x^2). You can get
> an approximation by calculating the average of at least three random numbers
> (the more the numbers, the better the approximation, but three is usually
> close enough).
> 

The more random numbers summed, the smaller the standard deviation.
PoD.


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