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Recognition of triangles and quadrilaterals by chord length distribution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

J. Gates
J. Gates*
Affiliation:
Thames Polytechnic
*
∗ Postal address: School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing, Thames Polytechnic, Wellington St., London SE18 6PF, U.K.
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Abstract

It is shown how a triangle can be recognised from the odd moments of the length of random chords and how a quadrilateral can be recognised from the derivative of its chord length density.

Keywords

GEOMETRIC PROBABILITYRANDOM CHORDCHQRD LENGTH DISTRIBUTIONPOLYGON RECOGNITION

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Short Communications
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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , December 1982 , pp. 873 - 879
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1982 

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