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Tetrahedron Triangle Picking


TetrahedronTrianglePickingDistribution

Given a regular tetrahedron of unit volume, the mean triangle area of a triangle picked at random inside it is approximately A=0.1811+/-0.0012, and the variance is var(A)=0.0175+/-0.0004.


See also

Tetrahedron Line Picking, Tetrahedron Tetrahedron Picking

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

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