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how randomness accumulates over time
Three Walks Starting From Zero
walk 1walk 2walk 3
Time step 20 ends at 6.
Three independent random walks, each taking a random step up or down at every moment. Start at the same place, end up nowhere near each other. This is what stochastic means: the future depends on chance, but follows a pattern.
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