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After reading Feynman, Oppenheimer, and others, I find it even more
amazing that they built the bomb. So many times they came so close
to
disaster. And all the number crunching that was done by hand and by
primitive calculators.
Eric

I've read that they even measured the results of a "Buffon's Needle"
trial:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method

jsw