Re: [math-fun] an almost-uniform random variable?

So: Does anyone know of a probability distribution that's close to uniform (or close to Gaussian, or something like that), but isn't?

Dear Jim, assuming your students don't know about the central limit theorem, if all X_i are uniform on [0,1], then X_1 + X_2 + X_3 + ... + X_12 seems like the gaussian normal distribution N(6,1) but for rather trivial reasons isn't since there are no negative values. Best wishes, Stefan