Having had no contact with Bertrand Paradox except reading the Wikipedia 
entries in English and German, my impression is that this is not a case of 
broken math but a case of an ill-defined problem.
Saying that a chord of a circle is chosen at random seems to imply that all 
possible chords are chosen with the same probability. My interpretation would 
be that all points on the circle have the same probability and also every 
combination of two points have the same probability of being chosen. Not all 
methods proposed by Bertrand fulfil this requirement.
My interpretation may be wrong. But the fact that you need an interpretation 
shows that a problem like this needs more clarification.

Thomas

> Am 05.09.2020 um 04:40 schrieb Roger Guay via use-livecode 
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>:
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> Bertrand Paradox


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