Talk:Monte Carlo algorithm

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Relation to Monte Carlo method

A Monte Carlo algorithm is more general than the Monte Carlo method (which is basically a sampling technique). Schizoid (talk) 05:21, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. I reverted a previous change which simply made the article a redirect to Monte Carlo method. Justin W Smith ^talk/_stalk 02:26, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Monte Carlo method page currently states "Monte Carlo methods [..] are a broad class of computational algorithms that rely on repeated random sampling", so it doesn't look like it's just a sampling technique, is it? I think that merging the two pages should be considered again. --William Di Luigi (talk) 19:47, 1 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Monte Carlo algorithms have nothing at all to do with sampling. They are quite different subjects. Why do you think they should be merged? —David Eppstein (talk) 20:29, 1 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]