Pick two points at random from the interior of a unit square, what is the expected distance between them?

My solution is as folllowing.

 

This integration is hard to solve. I googled it, and found the result is 1/3*ln(1+sqrt(2)) + 1/15*(2+sqrt(2)) = 0.52140543..

 

please see the link below.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SquareLinePicking.html

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~liam/teaching/4109-fall10/chapter4.pdf

posted on 2013-09-30 21:30  Torstan  阅读(273)  评论(0编辑  收藏  举报

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