Timeline for The distribution of the x-coordinate on unit circle
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| Jan 25, 2016 at 21:40 | comment | added | BruceET | Notice that the arcsine distribution in @Did's Comment (for the circumference) has modes at each end--sometimes said to be 'bathtub shaped'. Anyhow, very much different from the distribution of my Answer (for the disk). The interpretation really does matter. | |
| Jan 25, 2016 at 20:30 | comment | added | Did | "I believe that the problem is a little more difficult if the points are distributed at random on the circumferencecircumference of the unit circle" Not much, the result is the well known arcsine distribution. | |
| Jan 25, 2016 at 20:27 | history | edited | BruceET | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 6 characters in body |
| Jan 25, 2016 at 20:22 | history | answered | BruceET | CC BY-SA 3.0 |