Coverage of antipodal points by a randomly oriented sector

ID: coverage-of-antipodal-points-by-a-randomly-oriented-sector

Coverage of antipodal points by a randomly oriented sector by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-11-05
For a sector of width and an independent uniformly distributed central bearing, a specified bearing is covered with probability . Two antipodal bearings cannot both be covered when . For , the allowable centre arcs overlap in two components of length , proving the displayed conditional probability. Averaging over the width's probability density function gives unconditional coverage probabilities.

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