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From the Wikipedia article on Monte Carlo method:

Monte Carlo methods (or Monte Carlo experiments) are a broad class of computational algorithms that rely on repeated random sampling to obtain numerical results; [...]

Given that the circle and the square have a ratio of areas that is π/4, the value of π can be approximated using a Monte Carlo method:

1. Draw a square on the ground, then inscribe a circle within it.
2. Uniformly scatter some objects of uniform size (grains of rice or sand) over the square.
3. Count the number of objects inside the circle and the total number of objects.
4. The ratio of the two counts is an estimate of the ratio of the two areas, which is π/4. Multiply the result by 4 to estimate π.

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module Base62
  BASE_CHARS = '0SKVnQFHhGs9qo7p8cRW54duMYNXTCErx2tDmwO3kabfUB1elLvjiIgyJAZ6Pz'.split('')
  BASE = BASE_CHARS.length
  BASE_ENCODED_MIN_LENGTH = 1
  
  def self.decode(number)
    # assure string
    number = number.to_s.reverse.split('')
    
    decoded = 0

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// This code demonstrates -hash collision on NSString. Two strings have the same
// hash when the first, center, and last 32 chars are identical. The other chars
// don't matter at all.
//
// I had to find this out the hard way when loading images from cache while
// using the url string hash as the cache key. Unfortunately the urls were all
// gravatar urls, thus first 32 chars were identical. Further, all urls also had
// a fallback image url appended as query which covered the 32
// center and end chars. The varying part was between the start and center parts
// and thus the hash was identical for all urls.

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module API
  module V1
    class UsersController
      def index
        'v1'
      end
      def show
        'v1'
      end
    end

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namespace :assets do
  # Prepend the assets:precompile_prepare task to assets:precompile.
  task :precompile => :precompile_prepare

  # This task will be called before assets:precompile to optimize the
  # compilation, i.e. to prevent any DB calls.
  task 'precompile_prepare' do
    # Without this assets:precompile will call itself again with this var set.
    # This basically speeds things up.
    ENV['RAILS_GROUPS'] = 'assets'

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# coding: UTF-8

# A module to facilitate the retrieval of asset paths and urls in Rails 3.1.
module Assets
  extend self

  def url(file)
    host + path(file)
  end

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Fixnum
      user     system      total        real
true
  0.030000   0.000000   0.030000 (  0.027810)
true
  0.010000   0.000000   0.010000 (  0.006959)
--------------------------------------------------
String
      user     system      total        real
true

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#!/bin/sh

#### CONFIG ################################
USE_OLD_ICON=true                          # replace the new simplified icon with the old one
APP_DESTINATION=/Applications/Chromium.app # where to put the app
SUPPORT_DIR="`dirname "$0"`/.support"      # where the icon and version number will be stored
############################################

VERSION_FILE="$SUPPORT_DIR/chromium_version"
NEWEST_VERSION=`curl -s http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/Mac/LAST_CHANGE`

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def genitivize(name)
  name.strip.sub(/(s)?$/i) { |s| s.downcase == 's' ? "#{s}’" : '’s' }
end