The Shortest Planar Arc of Width 1

DOI10.2307/2324086zbMath0692.52001OpenAlexW2003400177MaRDI QIDQ3034458

Ani Adhikari, Jim W. Pitman

Publication date: 1989

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/424f1dbf5a8be2cda5f0921ee4944d6ece0b054e

zbMATH Keywords

widthconvex hullshortest arcBuffon's needle problemplanar convex set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10)

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