How's this for a theory. The average distance between any of N points and
one of its neighbors should be about the square root of 1/N of the surface
area of the sphere.

Making it into a theorem is left as an excercise for the reader.

"Greg M. Johnson" <"gregj;-)56590\""@aol.c;-)om> wrote in message
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> Any theory for the minimum distance expected between n evenly spaced
> points on a sphere?
>

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