Fractals with positive length and zero buffon needle probability

American Mathematical Monthly

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 314-325

  Peres, Yuval ^a   Simon, Károly ^b   Solomyak, Boris ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 0037392778     PISSN: 00029890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3647880     Document Type: Article

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