Monte Carlo Method and pi
Karl Pech
KarlPech at users.sf.net
Thu Jul 8 17:30:01 EDT 2004
Hi,
I got a task there I have to compute pi using the
Method above.
So I wrote the following program:
---
import random
import math
n = long(raw_input("Please enter the number of iterations: "))
sy = 0 # sum of the function-values
for i in range(0, n):
x = random.random() # coordinates
sy += math.sqrt(1-math.sqrt(x)) # calculate y and add to sy
print 4*sy/n # compute pi
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Unfortunately, even for n = 2000000 the result is ~2,13... .
It converges very slow to pi and I don't know why.
Please help me!
Regards
Karl
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