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Re: [Phys-l] Poisson stat.

On Apr 17, 2009, at Apr 17(Fri) 1:49 , Bernard Cleyet wrote:

I've for some time assumed the simulation w/ student groups throwing
initially 100 dice, and removing those w/, say, one up. successively.
was a model for decay w/ Poisson stat. Wrong, right?

Seems like the dice exercise would APPROACH the Poisson dist. as the number of dice => infinity AND the number of facets => infinity in some reasonable fashion.