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		dietrichepp on April 27, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Random Points on a Sphere That would lead to the distribution being non-uniform: there would be more points in the corners of the cube.

reitzensteinm on April 27, 2015 [–]

Ah, of course. To visualize it, the distance between the center and the surface of the shape would be proportional to the probability of that vector being selected after normalization. Thanks!

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