---
title: "Random Walks"
type: "article"
slug: "random-walks"
url: "http://localhost/article/random-walks/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/article/random-walks.md"
published_at: "2020-10-27T17:19:07+00:00"
modified_at: "2024-06-23T01:04:34+00:00"
featured_image:
  url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20230809-041332.jpg"
excerpt: "A program \"Random Walks\" for the ZX81 duplicates the Hexstat. It is an eye-catching, pretty display and very effective as an instructional device. Over a period of 15 minutes or so a series of \"balls\" falls down through a cascade or sieve to form 9 columns whose heights are proportional to the respective probabilities of…"
category:
  - name: "SYNC"
    slug: "sync"
    taxonomy: "category"
    url: "http://localhost/category/periodicals/sync/"
post_tag:
  - name: "1982"
    slug: "year-1982"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/year-1982/"
  - name: "Type-in program"
    slug: "type-in-program"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/type-in-program/"
  - name: "ZX81"
    slug: "zx81"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/zx81/"
model:
  - name: "Sinclair ZX81"
    slug: "zx81"
    taxonomy: "model"
    url: "http://localhost/model/zx81/"
indiv:
  - name: "Eric Chandler"
    slug: "eric-chandler"
    taxonomy: "indiv"
    url: "http://localhost/indiv/eric-chandler/"
publication: "Sync"
publication_r:
  id: 10243
  title: "SYNC"
  type: "periodical"
  url: "http://localhost/periodical/sync-magazine/"
authors: "Eric Chandler"
volume: "2"
issue: "6"
issues_articles:
  - id: 26646
    title: "SYNC v2 n6"
    type: "issue"
    url: "http://localhost/issue/sync-v2-n6/"
pages: "100-101"
pubdate: "November/December 1982"
archive_link: false
volumeissue: "v2n6"
---

A program “Random Walks” for the ZX81 duplicates the Hexstat. It is an eye-catching, pretty display and very effective as an instructional device. Over a period of 15 minutes or so a series of “balls” falls down through a cascade or sieve to form 9 columns whose heights are proportional to the respective probabilities of the outcomes.