Packing of Equal O-Spheres
Abstract
SMALLEY1 has recently proposed the problem of determining the density of O-spheres distributed randomly on a line and has given some Monte Carlo estimates. In this communication I largely solve this problem, so far as the expectation of the density is concerned.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- November 1962
- DOI:
- 10.1038/196764a0
- Bibcode:
- 1962Natur.196..764G