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Henk, Really like your monte carlo approach to the problem, and I look forward to reading the results. What exactly are you planning to measure? Frequency of hits, or just yes/no there was a hit? Might be more appropriate to report the median closest approach, but that really doesn't address the lik...

After years of studying chemistry, the first time I read of sulfuric acid’s volatility was from a short story by Edgar Allen Poe, “The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade”: Place in a platina crucible over a spirit lamp, and keep it a red heat; pour in some sulphuric acid, which though the most...