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One of the first labs I did in college, it brings back pleasant nostalgia.
by pimmen89 10y ago
One of the first labs I did in college, it brings back pleasant nostalgia.
- keithpeter 10y agoYup - oldie but a goodie. We did it with rice grains and graph paper recently, then a spreadsheet. http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/pages/maths_montecarlo.html http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/pages/maths_montecarlo.html Someone here suggested the Steinmetz solid as a follow up which I will try next time I teach that group.
- calebm 10y agoYep, it was a problem I encountered had back in high school Pascal. Fun times :)
- ISL 10y agoIt was my first independent Monte Carlo calculation -- changed my life. That project led directly to the 'rand' call in this function [1] 13 years later and fundamentally altered the way I think about data analysis. [1] https://github.com/4kbt/PlateWash/blob/master/mlib/bootstrapData.m https://github.com/4kbt/PlateWash/blob/master/mlib/bootstrap...