"Ballistic Monte Carlo Methods"

How Mathematicians Used A Pump-Action Shotgun to Estimate Pi
If you’ve ever wondered how to estimate pi using a Mossberg 500 pump-action shotgun, a sheet of aluminium foil and some clever mathematics, look no further.
Why?  What do you mean, why?  Which part of "... fired 200 shots at the aluminium foil, peppering it with 30,857 holes" didn't you understand?

I think I will start to refer to range time as "ballistic Monte Carlo methods".  Or maybe just "doing some math".

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