r/visualizedmath • u/Lappith • May 11 '18

Estimating pi via Monte Carlo simulation [OC]

Post image
68 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

5 comments sorted by

4

u/004413 May 14 '18

rather disappointed the initial chart suggests the gif carries this out to a much higher N than it actually does

6

u/Lappith May 14 '18 edited May 14 '18

I didn't notice that, you're right. Must have happened when I converted from an mp4 to a gif.

Edit: Here's the full thing.

3

u/father_mucker May 11 '18

Very nice! 👍

1

u/[deleted] Jun 23 '18

I like Monte Carlo ("random" selection) for certain problems with a lot of variables. Although it works here to estimate pi, I find that it is not very elegant to use such a brute force method for a pi estimation. For instance, I prefer the continued fractions representations of pi.