The Shortest Planar Arc of Width 1

DOI10.2307/2324086MaRDI QIDQ3034458zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

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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