rlmorel wrote: “One of my favorite books is “Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman”, and in it Richard Feynman talks about how they did the calculations for the Atomic Bomb...rooms of teams of people with colored index cards that they would perform various things, stack them in a certain order, another team would pick them up, bring them to another room, and people would do more calculations.”
Each process step involved probability distributions. The process was called “Monte Carlo”. I’ve read that this term was actually classified for some time.
Most interesting...heh, “Monte Carlo”! I am going to look that up, thanks for the tip!
A 2016 book claims ENIAC was first in April 1948 with a Monte Carlo simulation. Not the type of thing they would issue a press release for.