Monte Carlo Pi Model
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globals [estimated-pi error-rate real-pi avg-pi circle-radius] to setup clear-all ;set real-pi 3.1415926535897 set real-pi 4 * (count patches with [pcolor = yellow] / count patches) set circle-radius 200 ask patches [ if abs(pxcor) < circle-radius and abs(pycor) < circle-radius [set pcolor red] if distance patch 0 0 < circle-radius [set pcolor yellow] ] set sand-number 100 reset-ticks set real-pi 4 * (count patches with [pcolor = yellow] / count patches) end to incremental-go ifelse sand-number < max-sand-number [set sand-number sand-number + increment-by][stop] let i 0 set avg-pi 0 let accumulated-values 0 while [i < sample-size] [ ask turtles [die] throw-sand calculate-pi set accumulated-values accumulated-values + estimated-pi set i (i + 1) ] set avg-pi accumulated-values / sample-size show avg-pi tick end to-report random-one ;reports 1 or -1 report ifelse-value (random 2 = 0) [-1][1] end to throw-sand set-default-shape turtles "circle" ifelse full-circle? = True [ ifelse grains-pile? = True [ create-turtles sand-number [set color black set size grain-size move-to one-of patches]] [create-turtles sand-number [set color black set size grain-size move-to one-of patches with [count turtles-here < 1]]] ] [ ifelse grains-pile? = True [ create-turtles sand-number [set color black set size grain-size move-to one-of patches with [pxcor > 0 and pycor > 0]]] [create-turtles sand-number [set color black set size grain-size move-to one-of patches with [pxcor > 0 and pycor > 0 and count turtles-here < 1]]] ] end to calculate-pi let circle-turtles turtle-set turtles with [[pcolor] of patch-here = yellow ] set estimated-pi 4 * count circle-turtles / count turtles set error-rate 100 * abs(estimated-pi - real-pi) / real-pi end
There is only one version of this model, created almost 12 years ago by Firat Soylu.
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