Convex bodies instead of needles in Buffon's experiment

DOI10.1023/A:1004949008834zbMATH Open0892.60018OpenAlexW1707874150MaRDI QIDQ1376573FDOQ1376573

Authors: Alexandru Aleman, Marius Stoka, Tudor Zamfirescu 

Publication date: 9 August 1998

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1004949008834

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zbMATH Keywords

hitting probabilityrandom convex setsindependent hitting events

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Random convex sets and integral geometry (aspects of convex geometry) (52A22)

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• Maximizing expected powers of the angle between pairs of points in projective space
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