A Triangle on the Circle
Three points are chosen independently and uniformly at random on a circle of radius 1. What is the expected area of the triangle they form? Give an exact closed form, or a decimal rounded to 4 places.
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Source: Classic geometric-probability exercise in wide circulation; no traceable original source. Statement written for AxiomIQ.