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Darren O'Shaughnessy <dos105@rsphy2.anu.edu.au> writes:
>   I would have expected the distribution of the darts to be approximately
>normal, but it appears that the distribution is flatter on top than a
>Gaussian curve with the same standard deviation, hence with relatively more
>darts falling around the one s.d. area.

Perhaps you should define what you mean by "the distribution of the
darts."  The distribution is obviously two-dimensional, but your other
comments sound like you are dealing with a one-dimensional distribution.
I don't know, for example, what "around the one s.d. area" means for
your two-dimensional distribution.

If you are looking at just the distance from the center as the
statistic, then if the distribution of the dart locations were Gaussian,
the probability distribution of the distance would definitely not be
Gaussian (nor half-Gaussian).

                                        David desJardins