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In 1974, Stoka solved Buffon's needle problem in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d \ge 2$, i.e. he found a closed form solution for the probability that a line segment ("needle") with length $\ell$ intersects a grid of parallel hyperplanes with mutual…

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Fundamental questions in Diophantine approximation are related to the Hausdorff dimension of sets of the form $\{x\in \mathbb{R}: \delta_x = \delta\}$, where $\delta \geq 1$ and $\delta_x$ is the Diophantine approximation rate of an…

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We determine the constructive dimension of points in random translates of the Cantor set. The Cantor set "cancels randomness" in the sense that some of its members, when added to Martin-Lof random reals, identify a point with lower…

Many mathematical, man-made and natural systems exhibit a leading-digit bias, where a first digit (base 10) of 1 occurs not 11\% of the time, as one would expect if all digits were equally likely, but rather 30\%. This phenomenon is known…

Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ be a convex set. We study the problem of distributing a one-dimensional set $S$ with total length $L$ so that for any line $\ell$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$ the number of intersections $\#(\ell \cap S)$ is…

In this paper, we present a second partial solution for the problem of cardinality calculation of the set of fractals for its subcategory of the random virtual ones. Consistent with the deterministic case, we show that for the given…

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Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ be a bounded convex domain. Steinerberger (2026) introduced the Buffon discrepancy problem: given length $L$, construct a one-dimensional set $S\subset\Omega$ such that the number of intersections of $S$…

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We continue our investigation of the fractal uncertainty principle (FUP) for random fractal sets. In the prequel (arXiv:2107.08276), we considered the Cantor sets in the discrete setting with alphabets randomly chosen from a base of digits…

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We introduce and study an infinite random triangulation of the unit disk that arises as the limit of several recursive models. This triangulation is generated by throwing chords uniformly at random in the unit disk and keeping only those…

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