Mean free distance?

2002-02-02 Thread osmium
Visualize a large cubic room, say 100 feet on a side. 1,000 ping pong balls will be removed from an urn and placed in the room via random drawings from a uniform distribution for the x, y, and z position. The balls will be held stationary in their assigned position by means of magic. Once all t

Mean free distance?

2002-01-31 Thread osmium
Visualize a large cubic room, say 100 feet on a side. 1,000 ping pong balls will be removed from an urn and placed in the room via random drawings from a uniform distribution for the x, y, and z position. The balls will be held stationary in their assigned position by means unknown to us and of