Random Chord Paradox
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Bertrand's paradox asks for the length of a random chord in a unit circle. What are the odds that the length is greater than ? As shown in this Demonstration, the answer is
,
, or
, depending on how random is defined.
Contributed by: Ed Pegg Jr (March 2011)
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