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Solving This Maddening Probability Problem
Popular Mechanics US
|January - February 2023
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1/ The Problem
Pick three points at random anywhere on the globe. What is the probability that all three of the points will be in the same hemisphere?
2/The Hint
Don't know where to start? Grab your smartphone or computer and play around on Google Earth a bit to come up with a hypothesis.
3/The Solution
There are two answers to this question, depending on whether you think about the word "hemisphere" with a capital H.
This story is from the January - February 2023 edition of Popular Mechanics US.
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