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Hexagon Picking Probability (Posted on 2023-10-25)

You choose a random point, uniformly, within a regular hexagon, with unit side length.

What's the average distance to the six sides?

See The Solution Submitted by K Sengupta

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re(2): Computer solution

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(In reply to re: Computer solution by Charlie)

Yes, that is exactly what I did (distance to the vertices rather than the sides), because I misread the problem.

I'm going to need to work out a different calculation.

Posted by Larry on 2023-10-25 19:33:23

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