line_distance

line_distance, an Octave code which considers the problem of describing the typical value of the distance between a pair of points randomly selected in the unit line segment in 1D.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

line_distance is available in a MATLAB version and an Octave version and a Python version.

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Reference:

• Eric Weisstein,
  Line Line Picking,
  From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource,
  https://mathworld.wolfram.com/LineLinePicking.html

Source Code:

• line_distance_histogram.m, displays a histogram from N samples of pairwise distances.
• line_distance_pdf.m, displays a plot of the exact PDF of the pairwise distances.
• line_distance_stats.m, estimates the mean and variance of the pairwise distance, using sampling.
• line_unit_sample.m, returns a random point on the unit line.