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Three points are chosen at random inside a square. Each point is chosen by choosing a random x-coordinate and a random y-coordinate.
A triangle is drawn with the three random points as the vertices. What is the probability that the center of the square is inside the triangle?
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Submitted by Brian Smith
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Rating: 4.0000 (5 votes)
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 | re: Faster, simpler, better and now FURTHER | Harry | 2009-03-18 15:41:15 |
| Answer | K Sengupta | 2009-01-07 15:16:45 |
 | Faster, simpler, better and now FURTHER | FrankM | 2008-03-25 16:40:18 |
| An Alembic of Alephantine Animadversions | ed bottemiller | 2008-03-19 10:50:32 |
| re(4): Not faster, simpler, or better | Charlie | 2008-03-18 17:01:00 |
| re(4): Not faster, simpler, or better | Charlie | 2008-03-18 16:49:16 |
| re(3): Not faster, simpler, or better | ed bottemiller | 2008-03-18 16:15:24 |
| re(2): Not faster, simpler, or better | Charlie | 2008-03-18 10:45:45 |
| re: Not faster, simpler, or better | ed bottemiller | 2008-03-18 09:36:44 |
 | Not faster, simpler, or better | Steve Herman | 2008-03-18 00:54:09 |
 | thoughts to share with ed bottemiller | FrankM | 2008-03-17 21:47:34 |
| re: Faster, simpler, better | ed bottemiller | 2008-03-17 20:58:26 |
| Faster, simpler, better | FrankM | 2008-03-17 19:56:21 |
| Guess | ed bottemiller | 2008-03-17 17:20:57 |
| Almost all the way | FrankM | 2008-03-17 17:13:10 |
| re: I give up! (spoiler) | Charlie | 2008-03-17 16:28:55 |
| I give up! (spoiler) | Steve Herman | 2008-03-17 13:45:20 |
| computer exploration -- Monte Carlo method | Charlie | 2008-03-17 13:21:49 |
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