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4 Sep 2024 13:19:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Statistics question  
From: Invisible
Date: 19 Jan 2010 08:06:00
Message: <4b55ae38$1@news.povray.org>
Vincent Le Chevalier wrote:

> Quadratic mean and standard deviation should be fairly easy to find, as 
> here:
> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/UniformDistribution.html
> Quadratic mean = sqrt(k^2/3)
> Standard deviation = sqrt(k^2/12)

OK, thanks.

> Geometric and harmonic mean are more difficult... Because they are not 
> commonly useful as far as I'm aware.

Yeah, fair enough. I was just wondering if they had a simple formula.

Basically I'm trying to prove that my psuedo-random number generator 
generates numbers which are at least psuedo-random...


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