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Counterintuitive problem: People in a room keep gi...
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...
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