And how is it that the paper got reviewed and accepted for publication without somebody pointing out the obvious? As a 1980s high school student my first thoug

And how is it that the paper got reviewed and accepted for publication without somebody pointing out the obvious? As a 1980s high school student my first thought of how I'd find the area under a curve with a computer was basically to pick random points and see if they were above or below the curve. At the time I had about one year of exposure to Apple II basic. My math teacher said "yeah that's the Monte Carlo technique."