One strength of Monte Carlo methods that's often overlooked is their robustness to changing specifications. A coworker told our team about a puzzle relating to

One strength of Monte Carlo methods that's often overlooked is their robustness to changing specifications. A coworker told our team about a puzzle relating to sizes of pizzas. Most people came up with clever solutions that all depended on things like uniform density, perfect circularity, etc. Probably good approximations to real world pizzas. But one of us suggested a Monte Carlo based method and the beautiful thing about it was that it would work even without all those assumptions. As long as the pizzas have an area when viewed from above, it works.