rrrm@cwruecmp.UUCP (R Robertson + R McGuire) (04/05/84)
A couple years ago or so OMNI magazine published a contest that went
something like...
"You randomly place a random number of points in a square. What is the
probability that a point is its closest neighbor's closest neighbor?"
Does anyone out there know...
a) the answer to this problem? (It was published in a later issue
of OMNI but I didn't get a chance
to read it.)
b) the method for solving the problem?
c) how to generalize this problem to n dimensions?
(ie points on a line,square,in a cube,...)
Ryan McGuire
(the rm of rrrm)