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TJ,
Have you considered the possibility that 'a large number of deterministic
events' might cause a power-law distribution rather than a normal distribution?
Mark
At 08:26 PM 4/5/01 -0800, you wrote:
>I always try to keep in mind that the normal distribution is exactly what you
>get when you posit a very large number of deterministic events with complex
>sequences of causation.
http://www.htcomp.net/markmills
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