Timeline for Boomerangs in Polya's orchard
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:58 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://mathoverflow.net/ with https://mathoverflow.net/
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| Nov 19, 2015 at 14:53 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | @WillieWong: "O'Rourke quits faculty to pen tabloid headlines." | |
| Nov 19, 2015 at 14:39 | comment | added | Willie Wong | One possible (but really, really poor) bound is this. First make all the discs twice as big. Not you know that any curve that deviates from a straight line in sufficiently small manner will hit a disc in radius $R$. This contradicts a curve reaching distance $2\tilde{R}$ via a curve of radius of curvature $>\tilde{R}$ since within distance $R$ of origin the curve is "well approximated by a line". But this estimate is likely to be way bigger than what actually is there. (What? I am an analyst. :-p.) | |
| Nov 19, 2015 at 14:31 | comment | added | Willie Wong | (entirely tangential comment: how the heck do you come up with these titles? most of the time I see one of your questions I open it because I cannot conceive how it is a mathematical question, and then I read it and realize that no other title can be better than the one you chose) | |
| Nov 19, 2015 at 12:58 | history | asked | Joseph O'Rourke | CC BY-SA 3.0 |