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A comment on Beyond the Bell Curve, a New Universal Law (2014).

Re:Beyond the Bell Curve, a New Universal Law (2014) by mckoss on Friday November 27, 2015 @11:39AM (#10637893)
"Suitably scaled, its summit sits at a telltale value: √2N"

Doesn't this statement apply the any function with a maximum?

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Re:Beyond the Bell Curve, a New Universal Law (2014) by rcthompson on Friday November 27, 2015 @01:02PM (#10638207)
"Suitably" doesn't mean "arbitrarily". In this case it probably means something like "relative to the number of variables, N".
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