thanks to Annie Spratt

In my previous (1) and (2) posts I presented some different animated visualizations showing how the normal distribution arises from a recursive or iterative process interpreting the Central Limit Theorem.

But this not the only way to arrive at the normal distribution. In this post I’m going to speak about the derivation that I like the most and that inspired me another simple, interactive application.

Imagine that you have to hit a target. You aim at its center but since you aren’t a crack shot your throws will departure to some extent from it. …