Pi Calculation Confidence Visualization

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This is a visualization of all confidence intervals of calculating pi with random points. At each step, a point (x,y) where -1<x<1 and -1<y<1 was randomly selected, and the proportion of points up to that point lying inside the circle x^2+y^2=1 was recorded. Using the sample size and the proportion,

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