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Re: Lego Purity
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Date: 
Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:58:04 GMT
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> Looks like what I *ought* to be doing (cuz I agree with you that you shouldn't
> be a flat-out 0) is making it more of an asymptotic curve towards the extremes,
> rather than linear progression, hence keeping the wider range for the normal
> person, but making the extremes of 10 and 0 be far less likely. Hm. I'll see
> what I can do...

Youy could try something like 1/2[1-tanh(k(std-30))] so that it smoothly
approaches zero.

> DaveE

Tim



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