Tag Archives: mathematics

Monty Hall Sneak Peak

Posted on December 28, 2011 by xiao_haozi

Coming Soon: Monty Hall game player in Python. For now, here is a little teaser: The 10 billion iteration answer: >>> monty_hall.play(iter=10000000000) Ran 10000000000 iterations in 104833.082781s {‘wins’: 3333340564L, ‘losses’: 6666659436L} The code is hosted, of course, on GitHub and … Continue reading →

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Happy Pi Day!

Posted on March 14, 2011 by xiao_haozi

A quick post in celebration of Pi Day (March 14th, of course). Here is a piece of sample code for slowly deriving pi using Machin’s approach. I say slow because it takes quite a while to approach pi. Using the … Continue reading →

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