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ERIC Number: EJ729386
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005-Sep-15
Pages: 4
Abstractor: Author
Reference Count: 7
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0020-739X
A Random Walk on a Circular Path
Ching, W.-K.; Lee, M. S.
International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science & Technology, v36 n6 p680-683 Sep 2005
This short note introduces an interesting random walk on a circular path with cards of numbers. By using high school probability theory, it is proved that under some assumptions on the number of cards, the probability that a walker will return to a fixed position will tend to one as the length of the circular path tends to infinity.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Numerical/Quantitative Data; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: High Schools; Higher Education
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Language: English
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