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Review of Monte Carlo Integration

Instead of choosing at regular intervals, just choose them at random. Error is purely statistical, independent of the dimension of the integral. Other integration methods have error .

Example is the numerical estimate of pi, using simple 2-d Monte Carlo (dartboard method).



Paul Coddington, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, paulc@npac.syr.edu