Estimation of Pi

Pi can be estimated by generating random points and testing whether or not they fall inside the unit circle. Pi is approximately 4 * nHits/nTrials.

Warning: The test for 100000 trials may take awhile. The final image is interesting, though.

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Modified: July 17, 2000
Created: October 13, 1997