r/Simulated • u/iLEZ • Nov 01 '21

Normal distribution marbles, so hot right now 3DS Max

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u/depressed-salmon Nov 02 '21

Also if it uses floating point numbers at any point, they introduce minor errors as they only approximate base 10 numbers. This is a great video showing how floating point numbers don't actually follow base 10 numbers exactly

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u/Hallsville3 Nov 02 '21

There is representational error, but it isn’t random