A meromorphic function on a punctured disk has finite pulled-back spherical area precisely when it extends to the Riemann sphere at the puncture. A removable singularity or pole gives a smooth spherical extension and finite area. At an essential singularity, the meromorphic version of the Great Picard theorem gives infinitely many preimages of all but at most two spherical targets. The area formula then makes the area infinite. The logarithmically weighted annular area divided by tends to the total unweighted area divided by , by averaging a nondecreasing area function.
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