This is a classic statistics/machine learning exercise. It is also the topic of my favorite scientific paper of all time: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.1499 https

This is a classic statistics/machine learning exercise. It is also the topic of my favorite scientific paper of all time: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.1499 https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.1499 > A Ballistic Monte Carlo Approximation of π >>We compute a Monte Carlo approximation of π using importance sampling with shots coming out of a Mossberg 500 pump-action shotgun as the proposal distribution.