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 More options Nov 3 2009, 4:40 am
Newsgroups: sci.math
From: AI <vcpan...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 20:40:41 -0800 (PST)
Local: Tues, Nov 3 2009 4:40 am
Subject: Re: Variation of Buffon's Needle Problem
On Nov 2, 9:23 pm, Dan Cass <dc...@sjfc.edu> wrote:

> So are the radii as suggested in your picture to be d,2d,3d,etc?
> Seems like an interesting variation to me, but one problem I see is that of finiteness of a region.

You can take it as d,2d,3d etc but that will be a special case,
however radii in my pictur goes as d, d+x,d+2x . . . etc (if you take
x = d then we can have d, 2d, 3d etc)

Sjoerd Job wrote:
>I have run trials with l = d = 1, with the tip landing in [-k,k]^2, for
>various options of k. The # of trials per k was 100000.

Really??? I am amazed! Have you designed that simulation in
Mathematica? If yes can you please share it?

Regards,
AI


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