Tag: continuous
Interview Questions
- Spin for a uniform payout, pay to re-spin
- Expected maximum of uniform random numbers
- Will they meet within a two-hour window?
- Two friends with different waiting times
- How long must they wait for a coin-flip meeting?
- Do two data packets collide?
- Will they meet? Two random arrivals
- Bertrand's chord versus the triangle side
- A random chord longer than the inscribed square's side
- Break a stick, can the pieces form a triangle?
- Will the two of them actually meet?
- Is a random chord longer than the radius?
- Break a stick once, longer and shorter piece
- Expected lengths of stick pieces
- All three pieces at least a quarter long
- Break the longer piece: does it still make a triangle?
- Breaking a stick into a triangle
- All points within a quarter of the circle
- Does the triangle contain the center?
- Do the random points fit in a short window?
- The largest gap between points on a circle
- Three random points in a semicircle