hypersphere_angle
The Angle Between Random Points on the Unit Hypersphere


hypersphere_angle, a MATLAB library which considers the problem of describing the typical value of the angle between a pair of points randomly selected on the unit hypersphere in M dimensions. Since by symmetry, this will be zero, we instead look at the average of the absolute value of the dot product, and the corresponding angle. This starts out at 1 for dimension 1, and rapidly decreases as the spatial dimension increases.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

hypersphere_angle is available in a MATLAB version.

Related Data and Programs:

hypersphere_angle_test

hypersphere_distance, a MATLAB library which considers the problem of describing the typical value of the distance between a pair of points randomly selected on the unit hypersphere in M dimensions.

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Last revised on 31 January 2019.