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Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Akademijos 4, 2600 Vilnius, Lithuania. Translated from Lietuvos Matematikos Rinkinys, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 327–330, July–September, 1997.

Translated by E. Gečiauskas

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Gečiauskas, E. Sylvester's problem and random chords. Lith Math J 37, 243–245 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02465354

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