A Monte Carlo Application to Approximate Pi
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Instruction in the concept of area begins in elementary school and continues through college calculus. Students learn to apply formulas for certain plane figures and later, integration techniques. For figures that are not “nice” shapes or for “irregular” functions, students are taught approximation techniques, which range from counting squares in middle school to trigonometric approximations in high school and various methods of calculus. The purpose of this article is to offer the use of the Monte Carlo procedure on the microcomputer as an alternative tool for approximating areas. One of the introductory applications of the technique is to find the area of a circle, which permits us to approximate pi.
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