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This made me think of the Central Limit Theorem. (If 'non-contrived' independent observations with random variability are summed and normalized, they end up exhibiting the standard Gaussian "bell curve".) All kinds of natural "real world" phenomena end up neatly obeying a function that seems odd:

f(x) = K / sqrt(exp(x*x))

(The above characterization assumes N(0,1), and re-arranges terms a slight amount to highlight the interesting nature of the function.)




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