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Re:High-dimensional spheres are "spikey" by ColinWright on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @02:32AM (#4011847)
But for a given e, that probability goes to zero as n goes to infinity, or as n goes to infinity, the e required to be within a given delta of 50% gets smaller. In other words, choose your step size in an optimisation. As n gets larger, the chances of it working get smaller. In even moderately large dimensions the step sixe required is so small, you don't make any progress.

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