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How can I calculate cut-off points from a normal distribution?

I'm trying to calculate the upper percentage points for the 0.99 percentile for samples drawn from a normal distribution, with a sample size of 500. How can I calculate the expected values for ...
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Can somebody offer an example of a unimodal distribution which has a skewness of zero but which is not symmetrical?

In May 2010 Wikipedia user Mcorazao added a sentence to the skewness article that "A zero value indicates that the values are relatively evenly distributed on both sides of the mean, typically but not ...