It is not a Gaussian, it is a geometric (i.e. exponential) distribution, since it is the maximum entropy distribution with a fixed mean: https://en.wikipedia.o

It is not a Gaussian, it is a geometric (i.e. exponential) distribution, since it is the maximum entropy distribution with a fixed mean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_entropy_probability_distribution#Discrete_distributions_with_specified_mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_entropy_probability_di...