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Really the germane point isn't that it isn't specifically a uniform distribution, but that there is clearly structure to the distribution of those points. The locations are visibly not a set of IID random variables, because IID random variables don't space out that... uniformly.

That said, while I agree "uniform" not followed by an inflection of "distribution" has many other meanings, I do not agree that it the context of math, in a context where there is a standard uniform distribution, and without other relevant context, "uniformly distributed" can properly be understood to mean anything other than distributed via the standard uniform distribution.

The notion of being uniformly distributed has a very specific meaning in mathematics [1]. If you don't believe me, maybe you believe Tao [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equidistribution_theorem

[2] https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2020/01/25/equidistribution-o...

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