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- Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
- Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!aurora!isaak
- From: isaak@aurora.com (Mark Isaak)
- Subject: Random Points on a Sphere
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.181709.13148@aurora.com>
- Reply-To: isaak@Aurora.com
- Organization: The Aurora Group, Palo Alto, CA
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 18:17:09 GMT
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- This problem has me stumped:
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- Four points are randomly selected from the surface of a sphere.
- What is the probability that all four lie in the same hemisphere?
- How about for 5 points? 6? more?
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- Mark Isaak "Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every
- isaak@aurora.com generation is humbled by nature." - Philip Lubin
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