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The Chance of Ferris Bueller Getting Caught on his Day Off? | Physics vs Film

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Channel: Martin Archer · 2016 · Science & Technology

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Ferris Bueller took a Day Off in Chicago and narrowly avoided getting busted, but was that expected or pure luck?

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00:27 A random walk through Chicago
02:17 Possibility of getting caught
03:09 What's are the chances?
04:05 Simulating the movie
05:55 Moral of the story


Links for more information

Chicago Grid
http://www.domu.com/blog/decoding-the-chicago-street-grid-system

Colliding Random walks
http://cpsc.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/tr1029.pdf
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/54590/intersection-probabilities-for-random-walk-in-d2
http://math.sjtu.edu.cn/institution/c_s/2012_06_15/6_chengxingxin.pdf

Maximum avoidance time
https://math.dartmouth.edu/~pw/math100w13/carlson.pdf

Music by Topher Mohr & Alex Elena and Silent Partner

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