(And when I do the simulation correctly, I get a better answer: sqrt(n/6) )

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hmm. Not knowing the analytics answer I just wrote a simulation.
> sqrt(n / 3) looks like a shockingly good fit for the average distance
> between two randomly chosen points in the n-dimensional hypercube.
>
> Accident? error? known result? Seems clear that something like sqrt(n)
> would be a better factor than n. But, indeed, there are yet more
> possibilities with exponential functions.

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