101 uniforms all at least 0.001 apart
Question
You draw independent uniform numbers on . The probability that every pair of them is separated by more than can be written in lowest terms as . Find .
Short answer
. For points with minimum gap , removing a length- buffer after each of the first sorted points maps good configurations one-to-one onto unrestricted ones on an interval of length . So the probability is , and .
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- Continuous Random Variables and Probability Density Functions
- Cumulative Distribution Functions
- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
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