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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 06 January 2010 04:01:38PM *  6 points [-]

Throw darts at a unit square, take the fraction that hit a point (x < .7, y < .5) and multiply by 100. (Also works to calculate pi.)

Comment author: Zack_M_Davis 06 January 2010 08:36:18PM *  3 points [-]

I get 36.0.

#!/usr/bin/python
from random import random
trials=200
hits=0
for i in range(trials):
x=random()
y=random()
if x<.7:
if y<.5:
hits+=1
print 100*(float(hits)/float(trials))
Comment author: Liron 07 January 2010 06:02:53PM 1 point [-]

If I knew how to take fractions, I would have just done 7/(1/5).

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