The Shortest Planar Arc of Width 1

DOI10.2307/2324086zbMATH Open0692.52001OpenAlexW2003400177MaRDI QIDQ3034458FDOQ3034458

Authors: Ani Adhikari, Jim Pitman 

Publication date: 1989

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/424f1dbf5a8be2cda5f0921ee4944d6ece0b054e

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zbMATH Keywords

convex hullwidthshortest arcBuffon's needle problemplanar convex set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10)

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