i think we can use poisson distribution formulae for it.
On Oct 7, 2:02 pm, malli <mallesh...@gmail.com> 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 algoge...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.
