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Going from numbers to pictures - visible monte carlo!

One of the best things about math is that it's so... visible. Consider the monte carlo estimation we ran in the last lesson: nothing creates "wow...

1 replies - 1176 views - 02/17/08 by Joseph Ottinger in Articles

Monte Carlo, Pi, and ... gambling

Lesson two: Let's get gambling!What we're actually going to be doing today is applying something called the “Monte Carlo method” to estimate the value of...

0 replies - 2381 views - 02/16/08 by Joseph Ottinger in News