If I told you that, you'd know the answer, wouldn't you? --Dan Fred wrote: << What's the difference between that and the mean left-hand piece size? WFL << On 6/3/10, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote: Suppose two points are chosen independently at random from [0,1], cutting it into three pieces. What's the best guess G, in closed form, for the size of the left-hand piece, if best is defined as minimizing the average distance between G and the actual size of the left-hand piece?

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