[Phys-L] mechanical simulation error (dice vs. nuclear decay)

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

Apropos of JD’s tack posts:  

> The 'radioactive dice' experiment: why is the 'half-life' slightly wrong? - IOPscience 
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> http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0031-9120/47/2/197/meta
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> bc  has 1k dice for this model used at N. Salinas HS and a Pa decay aqueous separation from U app.  


p.s.  ten groups of students w/ 100 dice each.   Their results accumulated shows the proportion noise reduction.