flies_simulation

flies_simulation, an Octave code which simulates an experiment in which two flies land on a plate of radius 1. By repeating the experiment many times, the average distance between the flies is to be estimated.

Licensing:

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

Languages:

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

Related Data and codes:

flies_simulation_test

octave_simulation, an Octave code which uses simulation to study card games, contests, and other processes which have a random element. Usually, the purpose is to try to predict the average behavior of the system over many trials.

Reference:

1. Paul Nahin,
   Dueling Idiots and Other Probability Puzzlers,
   Princeton, 2012,
   ISBN: 978-0691155005.

Source Code:

• flies_cdf_plot.m, plots a cumulative histogram of observed distances.
• flies_pdf_plot.m, plots a histogram of observed distances, versus the exact PDF.
• flies_simulation.m, carries out N simulations of two random flies on a plate, and returns the observed distances.