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Plot a Random Walk

Make a plot of a random walk. This example appears in Stephen Wolfram’s video Introduction to the Wolfram Language.

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how it works

RandomReal[{-1,1},1000] gives a list of 1000 random numbers uniformly distributed between -1 and 1, Accumulate gives the successive accumulated totals of the random numbers, and ListLinePlot plots the resulting list of values with a line.