TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nahin,Paul J
TI  - Digital dice: computational solutions to practical probability problems 
SN  - 9780691126982
U1  - 519.2076 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Algorithms
KW  - MATLAB
KW  - Probabilities
KW  - Data processing
KW  - Problems, exercises, etc
N1  - 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
ER  -