MathWorld says that picking a random point in a unit $n$-cube is an unsolved problem. Why? Isn't it enough to pick $n$ random numbers uniformly distributed in $[0, 1]$?
Hypercube point picking - unsolved?
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0[Related](http://math.stackexchange.com/q/64028/6179). – 2012-05-28
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It doesn't say anything like that. It says that there is no known closed-form expression for the expected distance from a random point to a particular vertex of an $n$-cube.
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0Although one knows the asymptotics when the dimension $n\to\infty$, which is $\sqrt{n/3}$. – 2012-05-28