The Man Who Invented Modern Probability

Re:The Man Who Invented Modern Probability by solve on Thursday August 22, 2013 @06:03PM (#6260402)

    from random import random
    sum([(random()*4+1)**3 for x in xrange(1000000)])/1000000
    => ~39

Weird.

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Re:The Man Who Invented Modern Probability by bluetech on Friday August 23, 2013 @03:18AM (#6262174)

  sum(random.uniform(1, 5)**3 for i in range(10000)) / 10000

Many people don't know that the random module allows to sample from many distributions directly without having to construct your own.

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Re:The Man Who Invented Modern Probability by hollerith on Friday August 23, 2013 @06:39AM (#6262656)

I like the first version better because everyone knows what infix * and + do.

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Re:The Man Who Invented Modern Probability by saucetenuto on Friday August 23, 2013 @08:58AM (#6263174)

I like the second version better because it taught me something I didn't know.

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