Individual Homework Assignment 1

Overview

Questions:

• What is the first individual homework assignment?

Objectives:

• Perform another Monte Carlo method to calculate the value of an integral.

Individual Homework Assignment

This should be completed by each group member individually. Individual assignments are due one week after being assigned. The due date for this assignment is due in one week.

Write a Python script that estimates the value of $\(\pi\)$ by evaluating the following integral using Monte Carlo integration:

\[ \int_{0}^{1} \frac{1}{1 + x^2} dx \]

This integral will evaluate to \(\frac{\pi}{4} \).

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