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Random walk facts for kids

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A random walk is made by taking random steps.

Further information: Random walk hypothesis
Random Walk example
Eight Random walks going up and down starting at 0.
Random walk in2D closeup
Random walk in two dimensions

Images for kids

  • Random Walk Simulator

    animated version]])

  • Random walk 2000000

    Random walk in two dimensions with two million even smaller steps. This image was generated in such a way that points that are more frequently traversed are darker. In the limit, for very small steps, one obtains Brownian motion.

  • Walk3d 0

    Three random walks in three dimensions

  • Brownian hierarchical

    Simulated steps approximating a Wiener process in two dimensions

  • Antony Gormley Quantum Cloud 2000

    Antony Gormley's Quantum Cloud sculpture in London was designed by a computer using a random walk algorithm

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Camino aleatorio para niños

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