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The Galton Machine and the Normal Distribution

Shuai Huang / 2020-08-30

How to interpret the normal distribution? Let’s take a look at the Galton Machine. You may have seen this in somewhere, such as the New York Hall of Science or the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose. The inventor was Sir Francis Galton who was a Mathematician in 19th century. When the balls are dropped from the center top of the machine,…