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Challenge #467: Estimate Pi in Designer Desktop

Kilbyflow_Designer
8 - Asteroid

Done Spoiler!

olga_strubbe
11 - Bolide

A neat challenge, thank you, Ashley @aatalai

It was quite interesting to estimate the points of the square that are inside the circle and calculate respective Pi variance from actual Pi. 

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Yoshiro_Fujimori
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

My solution.

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I also tried the same estimation with 10^8 rows of random X and Y .

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Result
Insidetotal simulationsestimation of pi%variance from actual pi
785428331000000003.141713323.8409311299E-03

It seems the approximation method is not very fast...

 

wbasuki
8 - Asteroid

My solution

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Qiu
21 - Polaris
21 - Polaris

Really fun one! 

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DaisukeTsuchiya
14 - Magnetar
14 - Magnetar

I tried three different patterns.

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1)100 cases as per the given problem.
2)  Created 10,000 cases (100×100) using Append.
   Due to the bias in the original X and Y coordinates, the results were not better than in (1).
3) Generated 10,000 points using a Random function for X and Y coordinates.
  The results were better than in (2), but they varied each time the execution was run.

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2)

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3) 

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jfissel
8 - Asteroid
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patrick_digan
17 - Castor
17 - Castor
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TurboToad
11 - Bolide

Fun math problem. 

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martinson
11 - Bolide

Very cool challenge 

Cheers,
martinson

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