Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Elliot Temple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Problem: Randomly generate 10 integers from 0-100 inclusive, and sum > >them. Do that twice. What is the probability the two sums are 390 apart? > > I think the sum would come close to a normal distribution.
Yes, very close indeed, by the law of large numbers. However, very close (in a math course at least) doesn't get the cigar. You can compute the requested answer exactly with no random number generation whatsoever: compute the probability of each result from 0 to 1000, then sum the probabilities of entries that are exactly 390 apart. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
