Estimating 
Consider a quarter-circle, inscribed within a square. If we "throw darts"
randomly in x and y, some will fall within the circle and some
will fall beyond it in the square.
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[NMSU, N. Vogt] |
If we throw a lot of darts (10,000) then the ratio of those which fall within
the circle to those which fall beyond the circle will converge to
/4.