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Pentagon Triangle Picking


Given a regular pentagon of unit area, mean triangle area of a triangle picked at random inside it is given by the n=5 case of polygon triangle picking,

A^_=1/(180)(9+2sqrt(5))
(1)
=0.074845....
(2)
PentagonTrianglePickingDistribution

The distribution of areas, illustrated above, is apparently not known exactly.


See also

Polygon Triangle Picking, Square Triangle Picking, Triangle Triangle Picking

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Pentagon Triangle Picking." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/PentagonTrianglePicking.html

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