Juggling probabilities
Abstract
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The act of a person juggling can be viewed as a Markov process if we assume 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.
11 pages, 5 eps figures. psfrag
11 pages, 5 eps figures. psfrag