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Random walk facts for kids

Kids Encyclopedia Facts

A random walk is made by taking random steps.

For more details, see 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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