Digital dice. Computational solutions to practical probability problems.

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Authors Paul J. Nahin

Publication date 18 April 2008

zbMATH Keywords

\texttt{MATLAB}exercisesMonte Carlopopular mathprobabilitysimulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to probability theory (60-01) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to probability theory (60-04) Computational methods for problems pertaining to probability theory (60-08) Monte Carlo methods (65C05)

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(2)

• The sticker collector's problem
• Dice, sticks, pixels and bits: didactic alternatives to explore the methodology of Monte Carlo in a ludic tone

Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• Octave
• Matlab
• Scilab

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