Timeline for If you break a stick at two points chosen uniformly, the probability the three resulting sticks form a triangle is 1/4. Is there a nice proof of this?
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| Mar 28, 2020 at 22:17 | comment | added | vinc17 | This was my solution: easy, direct, and not much risk to be wrong with "equivalence" reasoning. But I don't know anything about Bayes' theorem. After searching a bit, this seems like the law of total probability applied to a continuous distribution (here, uniform). But perhaps that's an equivalent way of saying things. | |
| Aug 10, 2014 at 8:19 | comment | added | Supriyo | what is f here? Please explain a little the application of Bayes theorem. | |
| Aug 27, 2013 at 11:14 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Aug 27, 2013 at 10:56 | history | answered | Arash | CC BY-SA 3.0 |