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Implement sampling from the unit sphere and circle #567

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Implement sampling from the unit sphere and circle #567

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  1. Implement sampling from the unit sphere 

    This uses a method by Marsaglia (1972), which was found to be the
fastest of the methods given by [MathWorld].

[MathWorld]: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SpherePointPicking.html
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  2. Implement sampling from the unit circle

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  3. Add uniformity test for unit sphere and circle 

    This introduces an external dev-dependency on the `average` crate.
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