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by alskdjflaskjdhf 1560 days ago
This is a classic illustration of the Central Limit Theorem--in fact, the example is even on the Wikipedia page [0]. The distribution tends towards a normal distribution as n increases (though to actually take the limit you need to rescale).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem#Applicat...