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Drunkard's walk
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A drunkard's walk is a path constructed according to the following rules:
Drunkard's Walk is a 1960 science fiction novel by Frederik Pohl
- There is a starting point.
- The distance from any point in the path to the next point in the path is a constant.
- The direction from any point in the path to the next point in the path is chosen at random.
The straight-line distance between start and finish points of a drunkard's walk of length n is O(n1/2).
Drunkard's Walk is a 1960 science fiction novel by Frederik Pohl
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