Recently, I've faced the need of monitoring some basic checks in my laptop and wanted to be rapidly notified about them. Basically I have a small script scheduled in my crontab and want it to clearly notify me when it returns errors. My real task was a little bit more complicated, but let's say I just wanted to check the free space on root partition.

Estimating $\pi$ for fun (Part 2: illustrating the process)¶

In previous post we could see how to estimate $\pi$ value with a simple Monte Carlo algorithm.

Now we're going to illustrate the process with some simple plots.

Let's remember the code we prevously had:

Estimating $\pi$ for fun (Part 1: the basics)¶

The proposed project in this article is an example I tend to use in my Python introductory courses. The purpose is to calculate a dummy PI estimation based on a damn simple Monte Carlo algorithm.

It’s a simple and fun example that can be approached in a really direct and simple way, but that can be improved in many ways.