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- From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
- Subject: Re: Probably you know the probability ;-)
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- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 02:59:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Oct14.193802.25129@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> kavuri@lips1.ecn.purdue.edu (Surya N Kavuri ) writes:
- > I am given a "rod" of fixed length l. I took a hammer and
- > broke it into three parts.
- >
- > (a) what is the probability that they form a triangle ?
- > (b) what is the probability that they form an isoceles triangle ?
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- There is not enough information to answer unless you tell us the
- probability distribution of the lengths of the 3 parts. In real
- life this would depend in a complicated way on how you broke the
- rod.
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