The broken stick reconsidered again (Q968795)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5706105
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5706105 |
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The broken stick reconsidered again (English)
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10 May 2010
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The author sketches a brief historical survey concerning the concept of ``uniform distribution'', or more generally ``at random'', pointing out some further details with respect to a previous article by \textit{G. S. Goodman} [Math. Intell. 30, No. 3, 43--49 (2008; Zbl 1194.60014)]. In particular, the focus is on the ''broken stick'' problem, about which several interesting comments are supplied.
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Geometric probability
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Uniform distribution
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