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Apply Chebyshev's inequality to the Monte Carlo estimator:

P (θ_{n}^{MC} - θ \geq 0.01) \leq \frac{Var ( θ _{n}^{MC} )}{0.0 1 ^{2}} = \frac{1 0 ^{4}}{n} .

(1)

Thus

1 0^{4} / n \leq 0.01

suffices, giving

n = 1, 000, 000.

(2)

This is a finite-sample probability guarantee for every target satisfying the given variance assumption. It is a sufficient sample count supplied by the inequality, rather than a claim that every such target actually needs a million draws.

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