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outousan

I don't think this is immediately clear to me so I went to calculate P[distance between center and sampled point <= r] and realize this is quadratic in r. Is there a simpler or more intuitive way to think about it?

jasonx

for fixed theta, larger r corresponds to a longer arc length r dtheta and so a larger area r dr dtheta