@Mridul Malpani Can you please justify your proposition.
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Mridul Malpani <[email protected]>wrote: > i think we can use poisson distribution formulae for it. > > > On Oct 7, 2:02 pm, malli <[email protected]> wrote: > > An interesting puzzle. Assume size of each bird to be negligibly > > small. Please provide your answers with analysis. > > > > Take a wire stretched between two posts, and have a large number of > > birds land on it at random. Take a bucket of yellow paint, and for > > each bird, paint the interval from it to its closest neighbour. The > > question is: what proportion of the wire will be painted. More > > strictly: as the number of birds goes to infinity, what is the limit > > of the expected value of the proportion of painted wire, assuming a > > uniform probability distribution of birds on the wire. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Algorithm Geeks" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<algogeeks%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.
