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Kernal Blas

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1. Shan Ariel Sioson
2. Joseph Pham

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Assignment 1

Calculation of Pi

For this assessment, I used code found at helloacm.com

In this version, the value of PI is calculated using the Monte Carlo method. This method states:

1. A circle with radius r in a squre with side length 2r
2. The area of the circle is Πr² and the area of the square is 4r²
3. The ratio of the area of the circle to the area of the square is: Πr² / 4r² = Π / 4
4. If you randomly generate N points inside the square, approximately N * Π / 4 of those points (M) should fall inside the circle.
5. Π is then approximated as:

• N * Π / 4 = M
• Π / 4 = M / N
• Π = 4 * M / N

For simplicity the radius of the circle is 1. With this, we randomly generate points within the area and count the number of times each point falls within the circle, between 0 and 1. We then calculate the ratio and multiply by 4 which will give us the approximation of Π. When we run the program we see:

1000            3.152 - took - 0 millisecs
10000           3.1328 - took - 0 millisecs
100000          3.14744 - took - 9 millisecs
1000000         3.141028 - took - 96 millisecs
10000000        3.1417368 - took - 998 millisecs
100000000       3.1419176 - took - 10035 millisecs