The galton box experiment with beads flowing down a pegboard

For small objects like beads or marbles, when dropped down a pegboard, the likelihood of landing in a particular place follows the normal distribution, creating a bell curve shape. The same is not true of photons, which display a complex distribution that classical computers find difficult to predict.

Date:

25 June 2025

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catherine-hodges

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Matemateca (IME/USP)/Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton

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