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Comment by NooneAtAll3

2 days ago

yep

"expected distance" is average abs(coordinate), so for biased walk (and big enough time) it's simply abs(bias)*time, and for unbiased it's deviation==sqrt(variance)

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raincole  2 days ago

Oh right, makes sense.

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