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Minimum distance to a sampled point with given pdf

The heuristics behind that answer is the following. Consider the probability $P(r)$ that this distance is at least $r$. If equals $\int_Q (1-U(x,r))^N\,dx$ where $U(x,r)=\int_{B(x,r)}f(x)\,dx$. Now, $ …
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Is there a set of point $S \subset \mathbb R^2$ such that $|\{C: C \text{ is unit circle bou...

An alternative solution is the following: Take 10 unit vectors in the generic position. Consider all $1024$ possible sums from the empty one (the zero vector) to the full sum of all $10$ vectors. Colo …
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Expected triangle area of normal distributed vertices with colinear expectations

How was your formula derived? You can do most of the work in your head without touching pen or paper. First, project to a random plane. Then the area will drop twice on average (Archimedes), so the an …
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