I already went over a Monte Carlo method for estimating Pi - you know, for Pi-Day (March 14). Well, here is a small addition. This is the same thing done in Scratch.
If you create an account on Scratch, you can download the code of any project. I like Scratch.
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@jg,
Sorry about that - I was sort of worried about that app autorunning. I have replaced it with picture and a link to the scratch website. Hope that fixes it.
n=1.851E6
pi=3.1344...
Guess they've been lying to us about that 3.14159 business all this time. ;)
@ToSeek,
My wife found the same thing - I suspect it is a problem with Scratch's random number generator. I could be wrong though.
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