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Re:High-dimensional spheres are "spikey" by evolvingstuff on Saturday May 19, 2012 @01:14PM (#3996410)
Another fun fact about high-dimensional spaces: Randomly pick k points in an n-dimensional space. Now, find their average location. As the number of dimensions increases, it becomes progressively more likely that every point will be closer to the average than it is to any other point.

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