From 6a0f16d7b2f1b9f441048ef8d81c10d6866e68ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arun Isaac
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 17:04:06 +0530
Subject: Remove surface area computation.

Now that we are computing solid angle fractions, there is no need to
compute the total surface area of the sphere.

* contrib/cone-vector.py (surface_area_of_ball): Delete function.
(solid_angle_fraction2planar_angle): Remove surface area computation.
---
 contrib/cone-vector.py | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/contrib/cone-vector.py b/contrib/cone-vector.py
index 6effe53..16d1dfa 100644
--- a/contrib/cone-vector.py
+++ b/contrib/cone-vector.py
@@ -25,9 +25,6 @@ def random_vector_on_sphere (dim):
     x = randn(dim)
     return x / norm(x)
 
-def surface_area_of_ball (dim):
-    return 2 * pi**(dim/2) / gamma(dim/2)
-
 def planar_angle2solid_angle_fraction (planar_angle, dim):
     alpha = (dim - 1) / 2
     beta = 1/2
@@ -40,7 +37,6 @@ def planar_angle2solid_angle_fraction (planar_angle, dim):
 def solid_angle_fraction2planar_angle (solid_angle_fraction, dim):
     alpha = (dim - 1) / 2
     beta = 1/2
-    sn = surface_area_of_ball(dim)
     if solid_angle_fraction < 1/2:
         planar_angle = betaincinv(alpha, beta, 2*solid_angle_fraction)
     else:
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