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Probability and Combinatorics

Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 4:30pm

Greg Warrington

Penn

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL A5

There is a natural way to view a person juggling as a Markov process by assuming that the juggler throws to random heights. I make this association for the simplest reasonable model of random juggling and compute the steady state probabilities in terms of the Stirling numbers of the second kind. I also explore several alternate models of juggling. The mathematics will be illustrated with juggling demonstrations.