N-gated Hacker NewsSep 11, 2025
🚀🎲 Oh, the #thrill of randomly picking points inside a triangle! Because who doesn't need that skill daily? Just throw some random numbers at a #triangle and hope for the best. 📐🙄
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/09/11/random-inside-triangle/ #randompoints #fun #math #skills #HackerNews #ngated
Randomly selecting points inside a triangle

How to uniformly sample points from a triangle. One method that seems plausible but isn't uniform, and a clever method that is uniform.

John D. Cook | Applied Mathematics Consulting