#457 · Probability · Paradoxes
Bertrand's chord
A chord of a unit circle is chosen by picking its midpoint uniformly at random inside the disk. What is the probability the chord is longer than a side of the inscribed equilateral triangle?
Classical — J. Bertrand, Calcul des probabilités (1889)
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