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Triangles, Fractales and Spaghetti

History and Overview 2022-09-30 v1 Probability

Abstract

There is well-known problem of geometric probability which can be quote as the Broken Spaghetti Problem. It addresses the following question: A stick of spaghetti breaks into three parts and all points of the stick have the same probability to be a breaking point. What is the probability that the three sticks, putting together, form a triangle? In these notes, we describe a hidden geometric pattern behind the symmetric version of this problem, namely a fractal that parametrizes the sample space of this problem. Using that fractal, we address the question about the probability to obtain a δ\delta-equilateral triangle.

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@article{arxiv.2209.14980,
  title  = {Triangles, Fractales and Spaghetti},
  author = {ElHadji Abdou Aziz Diop and Masseye Gaye and Abdoul Karim Sane},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.14980},
  year   = {2022}
}
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