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Jun 15, 2016 at 4:05 comment added J. M.'s missing motivation I already had my suspicions, but didn't have the time to pursue further, @bobby.
Jun 15, 2016 at 4:00 comment added bobbym @J.M. thanks! Were you surprised that 13 / 120 is not the answer?
Jun 15, 2016 at 3:57 comment added bobbym @Dr. belisarius maybe I have found what J.M.was looking for.
Jun 15, 2016 at 3:57 comment added J. M.'s missing motivation Yes, I noticed, @bobby. Nicely done!
Jun 15, 2016 at 3:56 comment added bobbym @J.M. I may have found a way to use mathematica commands on the Dirichlet Distribution. I have posted it in my answer.
Feb 26, 2016 at 2:29 comment added Dr. belisarius Ping me if you find it!
Feb 26, 2016 at 2:27 comment added J. M.'s missing motivation @Dr. bel, I've actually been trying to figure out an appropriate NProbability[] expression involving DirichletDistribution[] for the past hour or so, but haven't had much luck. I'll need to think about it more...
Feb 26, 2016 at 2:25 comment added Dr. belisarius I've redone my calc using DirichletDistribution (nice idea!). Same result
Feb 25, 2016 at 20:47 comment added bobbym I liked the use of that distribution very much.
Feb 25, 2016 at 20:41 comment added J. M.'s missing motivation I'm not sure why either. If you'll look at the code, the sampling of the points is completely uniform over the triangle (via DirichletDistribution[{1, 1, 1}]), so everything seems to be within the assumptions of your problem. I'll investigate later.
Feb 25, 2016 at 20:36 comment added bobbym This is much faster than mine but using it I am not getting anything close to the predicted answer of 1 / 10.
Feb 25, 2016 at 19:57 history answered J. M.'s missing motivation CC BY-SA 3.0