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Konstantin Shvachko commented on HADOOP-4437:
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This is nice. I understand it is just an example but if we run more maps for a 
longer period of time can we get more Pi digits?
Now, as an example it should imo have much better documentation.

> Use qMC sequence to improve the accuracy of PiEstimator
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-4437
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4437
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: examples
>            Reporter: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE
>            Assignee: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 0.20.0
>
>         Attachments: 4437_20081019.patch, 4437_20081103.patch
>
>
> Currently, PiEstimator uses java.util.Random to generate random 2d-points for 
> estimating pi. The numbers generated by java.util.Random are uniformly 
> distributed.  The 2d-points generated tense to have clump and gap. So the 
> accuracy of the estimated pi is low.  The accuracy can be improved by using a 
> quasi-Monte Carlo (qMC) sequence.

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