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radioactive decay

can anyone help me to understand how to plot a graph to show the simulation of radioactive decay using 100 dice?
should the numbers be getting smaller, as mine are all over the place and I used a website for the simulation?

Reply 1

TarzanNebby

Original post by Kat123*

The numbers should be getting smaller because you take out the dice that land of the side you have chosen each time, so there should be less each time

Reply 2

Mr Wednesday

Original post by TarzanNebby

The numbers should be getting smaller because you take out the dice that land of the side you have chosen each time, so there should be less each time

As above ...... but then recall that you must have less dice each time as some have "decayed", so it won't be a nice linear decrease, instead it will be an exponential decay. Dont toss 100 dice every turn, start with 100, on the next turn use however many are still "alive" (<100) and keep going until the last one dies.