Bertrand's paradox: a physical way out along the lines of Buffon's needle throwing experiment

Bertrand's paradox (Bertrand 1889 "Calcul des Probabilites" (Paris: Gauthier-Villars)) can be considered as a cautionary memento, to practitioners and students of probability calculus alike, of the possible ambiguous meaning of the term "at random" when the sample space of e...

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Veröffentlicht in:	European journal of physics 2011-05, Vol.32 (3), p.819-825
Hauptverfasser:	Porto, P Di, Crosignani, B, Ciattoni, A, Liu, H C
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Sprache:	eng
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