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Broken Stick Triangle

Jane StreetCitadel

A stick is broken at two independent, uniformly random points. What is the probability the three pieces can form a triangle?

Approach

The triangle inequality fails iff one piece is longer than half.

Set up the two cut points as a point in the unit square.

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