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Intuitive proof that the first $(n-2)$ coordinates on a sphere are uniform in a ball

One viewpoint, which is a bit gauche for your construction but valid, is that the general result is a corollary of Archimedes' theorem, that the projection from a 2-sphere $S^2$ to an interval $I$ is …
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