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Four Points in a Square (Posted on 2023-01-12) Difficulty: 4 of 5
Four points are chosen at random inside a square. Each point is chosen by choosing a random x-coordinate and a random y-coordinate.

A convex quadrilateral is drawn with the the four random points as the vertices.

Determine the probability that the center of the square is inside this quadrilateral.

See The Solution Submitted by K Sengupta    
Rating: 5.0000 (2 votes)

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  Subject Author Date
Impressive!Larry2023-01-13 09:07:54
Code for sanity checkCharlie2023-01-13 08:35:34
re: Sanity check on classification -- last part got cut offCharlie2023-01-13 08:29:59
Sanity check on classificationCharlie2023-01-13 08:27:53
My level of confidenceLarry2023-01-12 19:41:53
re(2): preliminary simulation resultsCharlie2023-01-12 18:17:52
re: preliminary simulation resultsCharlie2023-01-12 11:44:24
Code for random and non-random methodsLarry2023-01-12 10:45:24
Some ThoughtsRandomized and non-random methodsLarry2023-01-12 10:44:18
Some Thoughtspreliminary simulation resultsCharlie2023-01-12 09:49:53
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