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I fundamentally disagree that the resulting distribution isn't more or less equal. It's basically randomly distributed around 45, with a pretty small standard d

• Drdrdrq 9y ago
  I think it is Gaussian, not equal. Intuitively, it seems very unlikely that all persons would have the same amount of money at some random time.
• jldugger 9y ago
  Of course it's randomly distributed around 45 -- conservation of money at work there. As for the std deviation, the normal rule of thumb is "95 percent of samples fall within 2 std deviations". So basically, all but the highest and lowest. Well maybe two highest, because of the 0 dollar lower bound. A standard deviation of half your starting pool seems pretty high, even if we all have equal chances of being at the far end of the spectrum of results.