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Monte-carlo Analysis Confusion
Customer: "I've been doing risk analysis by hand for five years, and we finally got your program so we could do it automatically but there's a bug in it. The answers come out differently each time."
Tech Support: "Sir, are you aware that our program uses Monte-Carlo analysis?"
Customer: "Of course I am. That's why I bought it."
Tech Support: "Sir, do you know what Monte-Carlo analysis does?"
Customer: "Don't get rude with me, of course I do."
Tech Support: "Put briefly, sir, it runs through your project several times, throwing random delays in, and at the end it averages out the results."
Customer: "I know all that what I want to know is why it keeps giving me different answers every time I run it."