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by thomasahle 1500 days ago
Yes, this is a simple way to think about it:

If you choose n uniformly random values in [-1/2, 1/2] (the unit cube) then the sum of squares will be concentrated around n/12 (just take the variance).

This is way more than 1, which is what you would need to stay inside the unit ball.