his computer could just as easily have spat out a uniform distribution But that's the point, isn't it? An exactly even distribution is unlikely. So unlikely, t

his computer could just as easily have spat out a uniform distribution But that's the point, isn't it? An exactly even distribution is unlikely. So unlikely, that the first distribution he found was probably fine for use in the article. I suppose my only real point here is that error bars are boring, and it's perfectly possible to understand what the variation in a typical random set is by looking at the set, without having to explicitly put error bars around a straight line.