Fraction of systems in our simulations that have q > Q (red dotted line) asymptotically approaching ﹩\pi /{{Q}^{3}}﹩ (thin green line) for large Q, where q is the ratio of separations of the outer pair and the inner pair of a triple system, and Q is a free parameter. The figure shows that protostars formed at random locations inside a cloud core will in less than 2.5% of the cases (horizontal line) have Q > 5 (vertical line), that is, the large majority are initially non-hierarchical. The few systems that have hierarchical initial configurations are eliminated.