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re: getting schooled
[6573] by "0magus" (adsl-63-206-120-97.dsl.snfc21.pa)   on Fri 12 Oct 2001 01:51:31     reply ] [ up ]
unfortunately, i dont know enough to start on those... they only teach us the fundimentals AS the fundimentals (insted of just having you learn then with no fanfair) when your doing something big enough to rate its own class. hence i know the fundimental principal of algebra (though its kinda useless) and of geometry, and where to go from there, but I dont know about functions or sets. that is to say, i do know, i just dont know that i know. mislabled.

i will ask about the Monte Carlo method.
re: getting schooled
[6719] by "0MAGUS" (adsl-63-196-7-174.dsl.snfc21.pac)   on Thu 18 Oct 2001 22:47:56     reply ] [ up ]
Tobot, I asked my trig teacher about your Monte Carlo method, but she said she didnt know of it. Could you please explain it, or point me towards a resource that could explain it (and other usefull math tricks).

My program currently is using trapizoids .5(b1 + b2)F where F is the frequency of sampling. it runs the X value through the equation one time to get B1 and then adds the frequency to the X and runs the equation to get B2, then find them as a trapizoid, then adds that to the previoud trapizoids.

if i set F low enough i can get some reasonably accurate results, and they are a lot better than what the textbook has us doing at this point (the average of sigmas for left and right rectangles)