Designing Buffon's Needle for a Given Crossing Distribution

DOI10.2307/2322705MaRDI QIDQ3746571zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrew F. Siegel, Jack M. Robertson

Publication date 1986

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2322705

zbMATH Keywords

geometric probabilityneedle problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

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