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- From: tayloe@uinpla.npl.uiuc.edu (Rex Tayloe)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
- Subject: Re: Darts
- Message-ID: <00960A78.F915B0E0@uinpla.npl.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 16:15:19 GMT
- References: <dos105-130992174724@150.203.49.43>,<dos105-150992153659@150.203.49.43>
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- In article <dos105-150992153659@150.203.49.43>, dos105@rsphy2.anu.edu.au (Darren O'Shaughnessy) writes:
- >In article <dos105-130992174724@150.203.49.43>, dos105@rsphy2.anu.edu.au
- >(Pat Rourke) wrote:
- >>
- >> I'm working on a darts simulation program, and so have studied the.....
- >
- > For the sake of clarity, the following:
- > I am, in fact, treating the radial distance as the normally
- >distributed variable, with the angle uniformly randomly chosen. I then have
- >
- > Pat Rourke (you may not have heard of me)
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- Try a gaussian in X and 1 in Y. (not necessarily of the same width). I
- have had a similar experience when trying to monte carlo particle trajectories.
-
- Good Luck,
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