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N Points on a Circle

CalcHard~25 min· Probability
Problem

The Problem

points are placed independently and uniformly at random on the circumference of a unit circle.

  1. What is the probability that all points lie within some semicircle (i.e., there exists a half-circle that contains all of them)?
  2. What is the probability that all points lie within some arc of angle ?