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The Buffon needle problem for Lévy distributed spacings and renewal theory

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Published in 2022 at "Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment"

DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/ac4042

Abstract: What is the probability that a needle dropped at random on a set of points scattered on a line segment does not fall on any of them? We compute the exact scaling expression of this… read more here.

Keywords: buffon needle; needle problem; renewal; renewal theory ... See more keywords