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- From: scotts@math.orst.edu (Scott Settlemier)
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- Subject: Biting spheres
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- Date: 21 Nov 92 00:07:02 GMT
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- If you've a sphere S of radius R, how many non-empty
- bites on average need you make with a sphere of radius
- r to remove a fraction 0<=x<=1 of the sphere S?
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- Where a non-empty bite of a sphere S with a sphere s is
- S\s for s randomly centered but not disjoint from S.
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- (Related is the plain vanilla bite where s can be disjoint
- from the bitten S, but not from the original unbitten S.
- How many bites required on average?)
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