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Juggling probabilities

Probability 2007-05-23 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

The act of a person juggling can be viewed as a Markov process if we assume that the juggler throws to random heights. I make this association for the simplest reasonable model of random juggling and compute the steady state probabilities in terms of the Stirling numbers of the second kind. I also explore several alternate models of juggling.

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@article{arxiv.math/0302257,
  title  = {Juggling probabilities},
  author = {Gregory S. Warrington},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0302257},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

11 pages, 5 eps figures. psfrag