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Let $x_t = x_{t-1} + \epsilon_t$ with $x_0 = 0$ and i.i.d. shocks $\epsilon_t$ of mean $0$ and standard deviation $0.5$ . What is the standard deviation of $x_{400}$ ? Give the answer as a decimal number.

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