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==Overview==
 
In [[computational mechanics]] and [[statistical mechanics]], a '''radial distribution function''' (RDF), ''g''(''r''), describes how the density of surrounding matter varies as a function of the distance from a distinguished point.
 
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<math>g^{(n)}(\rm{r}_{1},\ldots,\rm{r}_{n})=\frac{V^{N}N!}{N^{n}(N-n)!}\cdot\frac{\int \cdots \int e^{-\beta U_{N}}d\rm{r}_{n+1},\cdots,\rm{r}_{N})}{Z_{N}} \, </math> (12)
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