Fraction of a Circle Covered by Arcs of a Given Length
Fraction of a Circle Covered by Arcs of a Given Length
This Demonstration shows the probability density function for the fraction of a circle with unit circumference covered by random arcs, each of length . This probability distribution is a mixed distribution. The discrete probability mass is shown and captioned in red, and the continuous probability density is shown in blue (scaled by ). and are the mean and variance of the fraction covered.
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