Uniformly Sample Points in a Disk

Re:Uniformly Sample Points in a Disk by eru on Thursday May 26, 2022 @11:41PM (#31525805)

Btw, the following two are equivalent (in JavaScript syntax):

    var a = Math.max(Math.random(), Math.random());
    var b = Math.sqrt(Math.random());

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Re:Uniformly Sample Points in a Disk by toxicFork on Friday May 27, 2022 @01:12AM (#31526207)

Curious, how come? Does it become a statistical thing?

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Re:Uniformly Sample Points in a Disk by eru on Monday May 30, 2022 @04:11AM (#31556619)

Well, not sure whether you'd call it statistics. It's a mathematical fact from probability theory. And it doesn't matter how often you sample: the distributions themselves are the same.

I came across that one in the other direction, when trying to work out how to make weighted rendezvous hashing work. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_hashing

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