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2002 Nov 26
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unexpected behaviour of rnorm()
Hello everyone.
If I do
f <- function(n){max(rnorm(n))}
plot(sapply(rep(5000,4000),f)) #[this takes my PC about 30 seconds]
then I get something quite unexpected: gaps in the distribution. For
me, the most noticable one is at about 3.6.
Do others get this? Is it an optical illusion? It can't be right,
can it? Or maybe I just don't understand the good ol'...