Added Monte Carlo Implementation in TI-83 BASIC

[theinventor13]

Example code is also a visualization demo

[nic-hartley]

Coding with ethanol

Ahh, that explains why you wrote Monte Carlo in TI-BASIC, of all languages.

[theinventor13]

lol thats my moniker
i usually put it all as one word, e.g. codingwithethanol
but yes i also coded it because i was bored and somebody already did bubblesort in ti-basic

[Butt4cak3]

So this is kind of awkward. It's been a couple of months, but I finally ran your program. I tried to type it into my calculator and didn't find the GDB functions, said I'd do it the next day and.. well... forgot about it.

I tried to run this on a TI-82 and I had to tweak it a bit to make it work. I know you wrote this for the TI-83, but we might as well try to make the programs work on more devices.

[Butt4cak3]

I see what you did here and I have to admit that it makes it slightly more readable on a PC screen, but I ran into the issue that ::Then breaks on my TI-82. Also, the colons make the line above long enough to be broken up into two, which decreases readability more than it's worth in my opinion. What do you think about getting rid of the colons?

[Butt4cak3]

The StoreGDB function changed between the TI-82 and TI-83. On an 82 this has to be StoreGDB GDB1 instead. Do these GDB vars still exist on the 83? If not, then we'll keep it like this.

[thecnoNSMB]

I'm not familiar with how the GDB system works but I can confirm that those variables do still exist on my TI-84 Plus.

[thecnoNSMB]

After checking an unofficial changelog, there is nothing to suggest that these variables wouldn't be on a TI-83 either.

[Butt4cak3]

To anyone who wants to pick this PR up:
I remember testing the code and it worked just fine. The changes I requested were merely for compatibility with the TI-82. If you want to leave the code sample as strictly TI-83 code, it's ready to merge.

[leios]

This PR is almost ready to go. If anyone knows anything about TI83 and can change the few lines necessary (even in a separate PR), we can probably merge this.

The implementation also needs to be added to the text

[leios]

Is this the code we want in the end?

"MONTE PROGRAMMED BY CODING WITH ETHANOL AND TOMMYTORTY10
ClrHome
Prompt M
0->C
0->I
StoreGDB 1

ClrDraw
AxesOff
CoordOff
GridOff
LabelOff
0->Xmin:1->Xmax
0->Ymin:1->Ymax
Circle(0,0,1)

For(I,0,M,1)
rand->X
rand->Y
Pt-On(X,Y)

If ((X*X+Y*Y)<1):Then
C+1->C
End

End

ClrHome
(C/M)*4->E
Text(28,43,E)
Pause 
RecallGDB 1
ClrHome

AxesOn
CoordOn
GridOn
LabelOn

[Amaras]

@theinventor13 if you are ready to add your code to the relevant .md file, I am ready to merge this PR, since Butt4cak3 judged it was nice enough. 🙂
Otherwise, I think we can do it ourselves.