Ley statistics

Original publication

• Bob Forrest, The Linear Dream (1975), with updates (2014)

Republications

• Pat Gadsby & Chris Hutton-Squire, “A computer study of the megalithic alignments of Land’s End” (1976)
• Robert Forrest, “The mathematical case against ley lines and related topics” (1976)
• Michael Behrend, “Church alignments around Andover” (1978)
• Bob Forrest, “Some comments on Williamson & Bellamy’s Ley Lines in Question” (© 1984)
• Bob Forrest & Michael Behrend, The Coldrum Ley: chance or design? (© 1985)
• Bob Forrest & Michael Behrend, “The Devil’s Arrows on target” [computer study of alignments] (1989)

Mathematical studies (by Michael Behrend unless stated otherwise)

• The ley-hunting lemma: alignments of plane convex sets (1985)
• Strip formula for the expected number of chance alignments (1977)
• Strip formula: same as above in PDF format
• Disc formula: a generalization of the strip formula (1985)
• Distributions of chord lengths and distances between random points (1980s)
• Probability moments for ellipse and rectangle (2012)
• Kendall’s “spherical blackboard”: with an application to landscape geometry (2013)
• Random triangles in a bounded measurable set (c. 1984)
• Notes on the Furness formula (2014), with articles by Donald H. Menzel & Peter Furness (1965)