A Unique Game

You are playing a game of darts on an infinite board which can be thought of as the XY Plane where every position can be denoted by its x and y co-ordinates.

Your score (which can be rational or irrational) depends on the position (x,y) where the dart lands and is given by the function:

S ( x , y ) = e ( x 2 + y 2 3 x 2 + y 2 + 2 ) S(x, y) = e^{-\big(x^2 + y^2 - 3\sqrt{x^2 + y^2} + 2\big)}

However, you can't reach every point with equal probability and the relative probability that you hit a point (x, y) is given by:

P ( x , y ) e ( x 2 + y 2 ) P(x, y) \propto e^{-\big(x^2+y^2\big)}

You throw one dart, what is the probability that your score is more than 1?

Enter your answer to five decimal places.


The answer is 0.3495638.

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Aryaman Maithani
Apr 19, 2018

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