Digital dice: computational solutions to practical probability problems / Paul J Nahin
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TextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008Description: xi, 263p, 23cmISBN: - 9780691126982
- 519.2076 NAH
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Some probability problems are so difficult that they stump the smartest mathematicians. But even the hardest of these problems can often be solved with a computer and a Monte Carlo simulation, in which a random-number generator simulates a physical process, such as a million rolls of a pair of dice. This is what Digital Dice is all about: how to get numerical answers to difficult probability problems without having to solve complicated mathematical equations. Popular-math writer Paul Nahin challenges readers to solve twenty-one difficult but fun problems, from determining the odds of coin-flipping games to figuring out the behavior of elevators. The book shows readers how to write elementary computer codes using any common programming language, and provides solutions and line-by-line walk-through of a MATLAB code for each problem.
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