Let and let the sphere have radius . By rotational invariance, condition on and place it at the north pole. A band at polar angle has surface area , while the sphere has area . Thus the central angle between independent uniform sphere points has density
with density zero outside that interval.
Condition now on with their angle fixed at . For and to be acute, the unit position vector of must have positive dot products with both unit vectors of and . Hence must lie in the intersection of the two corresponding open hemispheres. The great circles bounding them meet at the two antipodes perpendicular to the plane of . Their common hemisphere region is a spherical lune of opening : when it is a hemisphere of opening , and as the two normals separate, that opening decreases by . More explicitly, take the common boundary antipodes as poles. The longitude conditions each allow an interval of length , with their centres separated by , so the intersection has longitude width .
Integrating the spherical area element over that lune gives area . Thus the conditional probability that the two angles involving are acute is . The remaining angle must itself be acute, so the desired probability is
Integration by parts gives , while . Therefore
This calculates pairwise acute central angles of three uniform sphere points by conditional area, rather than incorrectly treating the three angle events as independent. Boundary right angles have probability zero, so choosing open rather than closed hemispheres does not change the result.