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>  What would be  good  similar examples for 
> distributions that are symmetric but not  normal (for 
> students who aren't yet sophisticated enough for the
> Cauchy  distribution to 
> be a good example)?  Dice sums would be an obvious 
> choice (though  of course 
> they converge to normal as the number of throws increases), but I 
think 
> more are needed.
> .


How about the uniform distribution?

Peter
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