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execoverride
9y ago
What is happening here is fairly simple: Since each state in the system occurs with the same probability, the distribution that arises is the one that maximizes the entropy. Since the total amount of money is conserved, this means that the
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execoverride
9y ago
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_di...