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# clones in an island

The number of clones in an island is easy to compute if all clones are the same size: An island ends, a new island begins when the spacing , which occurs with probability . So the number of clones in a random island follows a geometric distribution with a success probability of . i.e.,

However, without the constant clone length assumption, it's hard to calculate even the expected number of clones per island.



Simon Cawley
Thu Apr 30 03:30:28 PDT 1998