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- 1Los Alamos's early Monte Carlo simulations on ENIAC▼Los Alamos bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo simulations, 1947–1948 (2014) [pdf]
A 2014 paper recounts how Los Alamos scientists turned to the ENIAC in 1947–1948 to run the first Monte Carlo simulations of nuclear processes, a wager on early computing that helped establish the technique still used across physics and finance today. The story is drawing renewed attention from readers interested in computing history and the origins of numerical simulation.