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Comment by tzs

19 days ago

Maybe it should be the cube of the amount of circumference inside the unit circle, because 3 random points have to land on the circle for it to be chosen.

I think that's correct.

But that wouldn't work either. The problem is that there is an infinite volume of circles with ~2 as the circumference inside the unit circle. (Volume in x,y,r space, and, consequently in the proposed probability distribution as well.) So this proposed probability distribution gives infinity, when summed up.