Re:Random Points on a Sphere
by ColinWright on Monday April 27, 2015 @07:06AM
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In even dimensions, volume of a sphere of radius 1 is:
For 10 dimensions, the hypersphere is of volume 2.55, but the enclosing box is of volume 2^10 = 1024. So roughly one in 400 trials gets you a point inside the sphere. Not good odds.
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