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Pentagon Triangle Picking


Pentagon triangle picking considers a triangle formed by three points chosen independently and uniformly inside a regular pentagon of unit area. The mean triangle area is given by the n=5 case of polygon triangle picking,

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

An explicit distribution function for this random area is given by Philip (2012, pp. 17-18).


See also

Polygon Triangle Picking, Square Triangle Picking, Triangle Triangle Picking

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References

Philip, J. "The Area of a Random Triangle in a Regular Pentagon and the Golden Ratio." Stockholm, Sweden: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2012. https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-127517.

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Pentagon Triangle Picking

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

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