Pachinko

Inspired by the Japanese game Pachinko, we study simple (perfectly “inelastic” collisions) dynamics of a unit ball falling amidst point obstacles (pins) in the plane. A classic example is that a checkerboard grid of pins produces the binomial distribution, but what probability distributions result f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Akitaya, Hugo A., Demaine, Erik D, Demaine, Martin L, Hesterberg, Adam Classen, Hurtado, Ferran, Ku, Jason S, Lynch, Jayson R.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier BV 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128438