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I did a science fair project in elementary school where I looked at all the ways to calculate Pi. I ran a monte carlo simulation written in QBasic on my 386 overnight. It converged to 5 or 6 decimals. The beefier Alpha that I could dial into at the school district converged much faster.

This brings back memories. I should go reimplement....



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