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+# jupyterexplore
+Exploration of montecarlo method for calculation of Pi, svd for compression of images and some visualization in jupyter notebooks.
+This notebook explores the following topics.
+- Montecarlo calculation of Pi
+- image compression of gray scale images using svd
+- image compression of color images using svd