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    One question immediately stands out...
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    He does like to serve that up from time to time, I've noticed.
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    I'll take a guess...
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    This reminds me of a scooter trip I once took on these very boards where I learned a valuable lesson about head-starts.
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    A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
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    It was correctly included in the OP, just not the explanation.
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    Quite small. The larger n is the smaller the chord length. I would argue that this is not an acceptable way to chose "random chords", however.
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    After doing some research and none of the math, I've found
  10. Prof. Templeton
    could you explain how you got your answer?
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    Just logged in from my home computer and yep, format is all screwy. Change theme did not help. Edit: Just changed to the IPS Test theme and that worked, but IP.Board does not.
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    So, then it is more random. I looked up Jaynes' proposal and it based on the fact that the size of the circle is unknown, here the OP has given us a size. Is throwing straws at a circle a better method than selecting a number at random between 0 and πr2 , letting that number represent an area and drawing a chord to section off that area?
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    I was just pointing out that Bertrand left out that method for choosing a chord. However,
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    He left out from his three what I thought was the most intuitive way to make a chord
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    I believe that does it. Thanks for hanging in there.
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    Should we randomly chose the definition of random? I know our friend laid out three ways to draw a random chord while leaving out, arguably, the most intuitive way. I thought I remember reading that there were more ways than that even. Math is just a hobby for me so I am not immersed in it.
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    I use Chrome. No problems.
  19. Prof. Templeton
    Ahh. I see the mistake I made. What if we decide that the sergeant was called into the meeting after it started. Does that make the last part solvable?
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    No one wants to accept the challenge of determining the size of the Major's or his enemy's available forces?
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    Yeah, they're not so good at policing the "regular" stuff either. Good with the bad, right?
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    Yes, it looks like that 33 solution is unstable. Although not optimal, I will give a hint to a better solution.
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