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A sort of dual to nondegenerate random variables

I was motivated by this classical puzzle/1992 Putnam problem. Suppose 4 points are independently and uniformly distributed on a sphere in 3d. What is the probability the tetrahedron they form contains ...
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Closed form volumes for intersecting modified cylinders

This question is somewhat related to the question Intersecting cylinders, but where the cylinders are now modified to orbifolds in the hypercube with singularities occurring at the vertices of the ...
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