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"Abel Brown" <brown.2179@osu.edu> wrote in message <hceu1p$f13$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> I have, say, 250 points ~ evenly distributed around the globe (x,y,z coordinates).  I would like to choose N subsets of these points are are also evenly distributed.  I'v been wracking my brain for a few days now and I can't really think of an elegant way to do this. 
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> Anyone know a reasonable way to tackle this?

It sounds like a solution might not exist, unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean by "evenly distributed".

Suppose you only had 4 evenly distributed points instead of 250. Clearly no subset of the 4 is evenly distributed.