Title of article
Disjoint random needles
Author/Authors
Rhee، نويسنده , , WanSoo T. Rhee، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2002
Pages
8
From page
227
To page
234
Abstract
Assume we throw a large stack of needles uniformly at random over a rather large area. What is the cardinality of the largest subset of scattered needles which do not touch each other? We compute the order of magnitude of this cardinal as a function of the density of the needles and their length.
Journal title
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Serial Year
2002
Journal title
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Record number
1551752
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