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Visibility in a growing orchard
This is a variant on Polya's orchard problem.1,2
Suppose trees are planted randomly in the plane.
The question is: How many trees are visible from the origin as
their radii grow?
More precisely, ...
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Random quads visible from a random point
Although the MO question Limit of lights in rooms was quickly closed,
it suggests a related question:
Q0. What is the probability that a random quadrilateral $Q$
is entirely illuminated from a ...
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What upper bounds are known for the diameter of the minimum spanning tree of $n$ uniformly random points in $[0,1]^2$?
Let $P$ be a pointset consisting of $n$ uniformly random elements of $[0,1]^2$. It is known that the diameter (greatest number of edges in any shortest path between two points) of the Delaunay ...