22.Do the Segments Overlap
★★★geometric probabilityAkuna Capital
Four independent uniform draws from [0,1] are taken. The first two are the endpoints of one segment and the last two are the endpoints of a second segment. What is the probability that the two segments overlap?
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Rank the four points instead of using their values. Overlap depends only on how the two pairs interleave.
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