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===Role in development of the Monte Carlo methods=== {{See also|Monte Carlo method#History|label 1=History of Monte Carlo method}} Related to ENIAC's role in the hydrogen bomb was its role in the [[Monte Carlo method]] becoming popular. Scientists involved in the original nuclear bomb development used massive groups of people doing huge numbers of calculations ("computers" in the terminology of the time) to investigate the distance that neutrons would likely travel through various materials. [[John von Neumann]] and [[Stanislaw Ulam]] realized the speed of ENIAC would allow these calculations to be done much more quickly.<ref name="mbv01">{{Cite book |last1=Mazhdrakov |first1=Metodi |last2=Benov |first2=Dobriyan |last3=Valkanov |first3=Nikolai |year=2018 |title=The Monte Carlo Method. Engineering Applications |publisher=ACMO Academic Press |page=250 |isbn=978-619-90684-3-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t0BqDwAAQBAJ&q=the+monte+carlo+method+engineering+applications+mazhdrakov}}</ref> The success of this project showed the value of Monte Carlo methods in science.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Disappearing Spoon |last=Kean |first=Sam |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |date=2010 |isbn=978-0-316-05163-7 |location=New York |pages=109β111}}</ref>
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