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by acidburnNSA 2703 days ago
Add in some lookup-tables from experimental nuclear interaction probability tables and you've got yourself a Monte Carlo radiation transport system capable of simulating in precise geometric detail all sorts of systems. This was indeed one of the early uses of computers back in the 1950s.

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_N-Particle_Transpo...