https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1505.05515/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21106242urn:hackerpapers:mention:1505.05515:21106242Sun, 29 Sep 2019 10:27:15 GMT<p>Interesting as the paper is, please link to the arxiv abstract rather than the pdf as that&#x27;s more web friendly. Reader can always click on he pdf link there. https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.05515</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1505.05515/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>hep-thhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21102531urn:hackerpapers:mention:1505.05515:21102531Sat, 28 Sep 2019 20:01:56 GMT<p>A beautiful related result is the Crofton Formula [0], which says that you can measure the length of any curve by appropriately counting the number of straight lines that intersect it. (My co-authors and I discovered a generalization of the formula that also holds in curved space [1].) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crofton_formula [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.05515.pdf</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1505.05515/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>hep-th