Monthly Archives: April 2015

Picking Random Points on a Circle (Not a Disk)

Posted on April 17, 2015 by mzspivey

How do you select points at random on a circle?  By “circle” I mean the outside of a disk, not its interior.  In this post I’m going to discuss two methods: (1) Selecting an angle at random on and taking … Continue reading →

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