Consider the unit interval $[0,1]$. Pick two points $A,B$ uniformly and independently in $[0,1]$. This gives three segments, $a, b, c$, formed by chopping the unit interval at $A,B$. What is the probability that the segments $a,b,c$ can form a triangle?
First we can simulate this to get an idea:
import random
n = 100000
t = 0
for i in range(n):
v = [random.random(), random.random()]
v.sort()
a = v[0]
b = v[1] - v[0]
c = 1 - v[1]
if (a+b>c)&(a+c>b)&(b+c>a):
t = t+1
print(t/n)
Run here https://onecompiler.com/python/3xnebnwvmAnd we see the result is about $\approx 0.25$.
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