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Kind of a misleading animation, since n is the number of switches (4) and not the number of balls (which diverges to infinity). Setting the bins to 500 froze t
by pseut 13y ago
Kind of a misleading animation, since n is the number of switches (4) and not the number of balls (which diverges to infinity).
Setting the bins to 500 froze the browser, unfortunately.
The physical machines that do this are undeniably cool, but especially when they have the curve painted on beforehand; this is the best I could find right now, but I remember seeing a pretty big one as part of a traveling mathematics
museum exhibition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUSKTk9ENzg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUSKTk9ENzg
- vicapow 13y agowhat browser are you using? the bins <input> tag has a max value set to 25
- sp332 13y agoI'm using Firefox 22.0 and I have no problem setting it higher than that.
- ricardobeat 13y agothe `max` attribute only applies to using the native spinner controls, you can still select and type larger values.
- pseut 13y agoFirefox 21
- sp332 13y agoWhen I worked at DEKA, I met a guy who designed and built an invertible Galton Box. The ball-holder was circular and if you spun it one way, the balls would fall into the expected bell curve. But if you turned it the other way, the pins would shift very subtly - so little you wouldn't really notice - but the balls would fall in a perfect inverse bell curve, with most of the balls on the outside and very few in the middle. I think the company helped him get a patent on the mechanism :)
- pseut 13y agoThat's awesome. Did it have the inverse curve drawn on too? For some reason, the certitude expressed by "calling your shot" like that made more of an impression on my than the falling balls on their own.