One hundred random circle points in a semicircle
Question
points are dropped independently and uniformly on a circle. The probability that some semicircle contains all of them equals with positive integers and as small as possible. Find .
Short answer
. For points, the events 'all points lie in the clockwise semicircle starting at point ' are disjoint and each has probability , so the answer is , and .
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- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
- Continuous Random Variables and Probability Density Functions
- Cumulative Distribution Functions
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