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**zttrftwsq** · 05-09-2007, 07:53 AM

Just because I'm a nice guy, I'll provide you with an excel spreadsheet which does it for 1000 rolls

The standard deviation (both pop and sample) for those 1000 pseudo-random rolls is provided and is suspiciously close to sqrt(35/12). Rolls are generated by taking a uniform deviate from 0 to 1, multiplying by 6 and taking the ceiling.

05-09-2007, 07:53 AM	#16
zttrftwsq Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 410 Senior Member	Just because I'm a nice guy, I'll provide you with an excel spreadsheet which does it for 1000 rolls The standard deviation (both pop and sample) for those 1000 pseudo-random rolls is provided and is suspiciously close to sqrt(35/12). Rolls are generated by taking a uniform deviate from 0 to 1, multiplying by 6 and taking the ceiling.
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