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How Mathematicians Used a Pump-Action Shotgun to Estimate Pi
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medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog
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rottyguy
on Aug 7, 2015
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gus_massa
on Aug 7, 2015
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This is not the standard Montecarlo example, the interesting part of the article is that they use a non-uniform distribution so they use some of the points to estimate the distribution.
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