gregjohn <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> But does the math predict that there will be a subset with negative weights?

  AFAIK with a hard lower limit but no upper limit what you get is not a
normal distribution but a poisson distribution:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution

which I think has no negative values.

> Apologies if this were thread hijacking.

  Maybe the authorities should be called because of this clear threat to
peace and order?-)

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