Prof. Templeton
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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
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could you explain how you got your answer?
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Anyone else having this problem with Chrome?
Prof. Templeton replied to Yoruichi-san's topic in Comments and Suggestions
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. -
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