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To: Doctor Stochastic

25%


748 posted on 01/14/2005 10:26:17 AM PST by Physicist
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To: Physicist

Bingo. Of course the "seemingly" symetrical HT is 50%.

And to help the lurkers develop their intuition: divide a circle (circumference, not disk) in to two parts with two randomly chosen (in angle) points. A: what is the average length of the segments? B: what is the average length of the segment that contains the origin?


750 posted on 01/14/2005 10:36:03 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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