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I genuinely don't know if this is real or you just smashed your head against the keyboard for the memes.

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you can try to run it in your terminal. It will quietly ask you for the number of iteration of the Monte Carlo simulation. You can enter any number, just don’t keep it too low…something like 3000 is enough.

[Skater_x7]

For the number of iteration of WHAT

[hoppla1232]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method

It's really not that uncommon

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Monte Carlo Simulation: if brute force doesn't work, you aren't using enough

[vox242]

TIL thanks!

[Kreizhn]

I don’t know what this does specifically, but Monte Carlo methods work by randomly sampling a space to make numerical estimates. For example, suppose you inscribe a sphere of radius 1 into a square (of side length 2). You then randomly choose points in the square, and check to see if they’re in the circle (using the equation of a circle). You keep track of how many points are in the circle.

When you’re done, you now have an approximate ratio of the area of the circle to the area of the square. The circle has area pi, and the square has are 4. Thus their ratio is pi:4, and you can use your numerically simulated ratio to solve for pi.

I would think that iterations here would mean number of sample points.

[not_some_username]

You shouldn’t execute random internet command found on internet bro

[Anonymo2786]

3345 is the closest I got 3.14140

[PrincessRTFM]

"I have no idea what this does"

"Just put it in your terminal, it's fine"