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The shorter man can be between c-5 and c+1 with all values equally probable, if he's between c-5 and c-4 or c and c+1 then c is not between them, if he's between c-4 and c then c is between them, so assuming a uniform prior for c the probability is 2/3 if I'm not mistaken.
Ah, I see what I did wrong. I think.
Yup. Under the uniform prior the posterior probability that c is between the two values is d/(1 - d), 0 < d < 0.5, where d = x_max - x_min (and the width of the uniform data distribution is 1).