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The thrown string: an unsolved problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

J. F. C. Kingman*
Affiliation:
University of Oxford

Abstract

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Type
Buffon Bicentenary Symposium on Stochastic Geometry and Directional Statistics
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1977 

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References

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