[throwaway211]

I'm curious why the author thought it necessary to default to simulate a numerical distribution.

Perhaps maths is not taught or appreciated in CS much now.

[qingcharles]

Because my maths is far weaker than my coding skills, I would have chosen simulation to give me a rough figure, rather than no answer; so the OPs simulation fascinated me when compared to the mathematical answer.

[tantalor]

Sometimes simulation is your only option, so this is a good skill to have in that case. This is meant to show both approaches.

[lmpdev]

Applied mathematics and computational science are both just simulation a lot of the time

Often analytic solutions aren’t required for sufficient insight into most problems, despite their parsimoniousness/prettiness

[hipadev23]

just wait til you find out how LLMs work