Estimating the value of π ... with 200 shots from a Mossberg 500 pump-action shotgun!
Many moons ago, when I was much younger and even more inclined to waste my time on something fun, I ran a slightly different Monte Carlo estimate of π. That version used a box of 500 straight pins and a grid of lines drawn on paper. As I recall, the estimate I calculated was less than 1% off the actual value of π...
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