The optimality of an algorithm of Reingold and Supowit

We had to compute the average distance of two random points in two adjacent rectangles, which is a four-fold integral. Maple gave up on it, but Mathematica, to our surprise, did it in about 20 hours.

helmut@gauss.cam.wits.ac.za,

grabner@weyl.math.tu-graz.ac.at,


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