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Themes comprise: methods smooth statistical tactics can yield estimates of pi extra accurately than the unique Buffon process usually used; the query of density and degree for random geometric components that depart likelihood and expectation statements invariant less than translation and rotation; the variety of random line intersections in a airplane and their angles of intersection; advancements as a result of W. L. Stevens's creative resolution for comparing the likelihood that n random arcs of dimension a canopy a unit circumference thoroughly; the improvement of M. W. Crofton's suggest worth theorem and its functions in classical difficulties; and an attractive challenge in geometrical chance provided by means of a karyograph.

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We have shown that this probability is e~rp/7r. Thus the mean of g(p) over all r\, r2, and r3 in a common polygon is Proceeding in the same way as with two points we get 50 CHAPTER 3 so that Choosing g(p) = 1, we get £1^43] = 77T 7 /r 6 . Letting g(p) = p we get Since J|J ||r, - r,|| An da2rfo-3= #A 3 for i */, we get E[KA 3 ] = 2V/(21r7). A third variation of this method yields some of the moments involving L. We randomly place two points n and r2 in a large domain of area D and average an arbitrary function g(||n - r2||) over all pairs (n, ^2) such that the points fall inside a common polygon and each point lies within a small distance, w, of its boundary.

FIG. 7 24 CHAPTER 1 The probability that the line with endpoints P and P' forms an angle 0 with the radius of the sphere is the probability that the endpoint P' falls in the indicated circumferential belt or surface area of circumferential belt Probability = — — —— , surface area of sphere with radius r but 5 = rd implies and thus the desired density element CHAPTER 2 Density and Measure for Random Geometric Elements In our Buffon discussion we have referred to the random positioning of a line segment in the plane and in a brief way to the similar situation for a line in the plane.

Fragments; and on the average each fragment has four sides when N increases indefinitely. The first statement can be proved by induction— the Mh line intersects all ( N — l ) previous lines and in doing so cuts each of N RANDOM LINES IN THE PLANE AND APPLICATIONS 41 FIG. 1 fragments into two, thus adding just N fragments to the total. We started with one fragment, the whole half sphere; thus the number of fragments is given by Now for the second statement. As we have already said, each of the N great circle halves is cut by the others into N segments.

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