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No, it can't be. This function has compact support, the Gaussian clearly does not.

You get a Gaussian by repeated convolution of the same function (and normalizing the width).

The equivalent question to what I asked is what's the pdf of X1 + X2/2 + X3/4 + ...

where Xi is iid unit uniform.




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