Sorry, looks like an extra line got inserted in there. One more try:
val count = spark.parallelize(1 to NUM_SAMPLES).map { _ =>
val x = Math.random()
val y = Math.random()
if (x*x + y*y < 1) 1 else 0
}.reduce(_ + _)
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Mark Hamstra <m...@clearstorydata.com>wrote:
> Actually, the better way to write the multi-line closure would be:
>
> val count = spark.parallelize(1 to NUM_SAMPLES).map { _ =>
>
> val x = Math.random()
> val y = Math.random()
> if (x*x + y*y < 1) 1 else 0
> }.reduce(_ + _)
>
>
> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:41 AM, GlennStrycker
> <glenn.stryc...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On the webpage http://spark.apache.org/examples.html, there is an example
>> written as
>>
>> val count = spark.parallelize(1 to NUM_SAMPLES).map(i =>
>> val x = Math.random()
>> val y = Math.random()
>> if (x*x + y*y < 1) 1 else 0
>> ).reduce(_ + _)
>> println("Pi is roughly " + 4.0 * count / NUM_SAMPLES)
>>
>> This does not execute in Spark, which gives me an error:
>> <console>:2: error: illegal start of simple expression
>> val x = Math.random()
>> ^
>>
>> If I rewrite the query slightly, adding in {}, it works:
>>
>> val count = spark.parallelize(1 to 10000).map(i =>
>> {
>> val x = Math.random()
>> val y = Math.random()
>> if (x*x + y*y < 1) 1 else 0
>> }
>> ).reduce(_ + _)
>> println("Pi is roughly " + 4.0 * count / 10000.0)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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