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VERY HARD Puzzle: What Is The Distance Between Two Random Points In A Square?

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What is the average distance between two randomly chosen points in a square with a side length 1? The video presents how to estimate the answer and also derives the exact answer using integrals. Per suggestions in the comments, I have modified the title to indicate the difficulty level is VERY HARD (a college level calculus course and probability theory course are necessary background).

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Sources and further reading

Quadruple integral
http://math.stackexchange.com/....questions/1254129/av

Difference of two uniform variables
http://www.math.wm.edu/~leemis..../chart/UDR/PDFs/Stan

Difference of two uniform variables and solving the double integral
https://www.quora.com/How-can-....I-calculate-the-mean

Solving the double integral
http://math.stackexchange.com/....questions/1294800/av

Mean distance polar coordinates change
http://www.mathpages.com/home/....kmath324/kmath324.ht

Integral secant cubed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....Integral_of_secant_c

Mean distance square
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/S....quareLinePicking.htm

Cleve Moler's blog post
https://blogs.mathworks.com/cl....eve/2017/09/25/how-f

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