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A fun challenge! I got very confused on how to do the estimation of pi, turns out I just skimmed over that part too quickly haha
Great challenge, glad there were hints for the calculations, felt like I was back at school with those details!
Another thought provoking challenge. I've included both my solution on the original data as well as my solution on 1,000,000 randomly generated points.
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In my initial attempt I thought appending the two lists would provide a larger data set and therefore a more accurate estimate of pi. Upon further consideration I believe this removes an element of randomness as it repeats the values from a set list instead of creating truly random coordinates, effectively causing over sampling. Despite this I have kept both my initial response and actual solution in my workflow below.
