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Spiralling in Plane Random Walk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

E. M. Wright*
Affiliation:
University of Aberdeen, Scotland
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A particle is initially at the origin in the (X, Y) plane and each successive step it takes is of unit length and parallel either to the X-axis or to the Y-axis. Its path of n steps is called a spiral if (i) the particle never occupies the same position twice, (ii) any turns the path makes are all counter-clockwise or all clockwise and (iii) for every m > n, the path can be continued to m steps without violating (i) or (ii).

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1965