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Monte Carlo: A Matter of Life And Death w/Prateek Singh and Troy Lightfoot from ProKanban.org

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How to Calculate a Standard Deviation in Monte Carlo

It actually takes more computational power to calculate a standard deviation. The steps that go into counting a percentile is count the number of things that happened and divided by the total number of things. That's your percentile. So, it is so much cheaper for. I don't even know why we're worried about CPU cycles today, but so much easier and cheaper to calculate a percentile than it is to calculate astandard deviation.

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