The Curve Fitting Roulette Program That Was Written by Larry Klondack

The program was written to predict how far a ball would roll down a ramp. It did this thing called interpolation so what was happening was for most of the trials the ball was hitting either 12 o'clock or 6 o'clock and that's all it wasn't going to go anywhere in between. The fix he said would require a completely different approach literally from the ground up. He actually wrote a completely different program with a completely different strategy that was just breathtaking there.

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