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gerdesjtoday at 1:39 AM1 replyview on HN

I think you might be thrashing around 30 samples for a normal distribution and the Central Limit Theorem and accidentally added a zero!

(OK, on rereading, you did link to a WP article about CLT, so 30 it is!)


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piskovtoday at 1:49 AM

You’re absolutely right! (c)

300 — I had in memory as a safe bet in a case of some skewed stuff like log-normal, exponential, etc.