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abetusktoday at 5:50 AM0 repliesview on HN

No, that's not true.

If sums of independent identically distributed random variables converge to a distribution, they converge to a Levy stable distribution [0]. Tails of the Levy stable distribution are power law, which makes them not Gaussian.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_distribution