Researchers at MIT and Caltech's LIGO collaboration are estimating parameters of gravitaitonal-wave events using Monte Carlo methods. Which of the following is true about Monte Carlo methods?
W) They do not require a specific domain of possible inputs
X) They rely on repeated random sampling to obtain numerical results
Y) They can be used on chaotic events such as the three-body problem
Z) They are methods whose computational cost cannot be affected by parallel computing
✔️Answer:X) They rely on repeated random sampling to obtain numerical results
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