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I slapped together some C++ in under ten minutes, with an eye towards making it run fast. This runs a billion iterations in slightly under one minute on my machine.

#include <cstdlib>
#include <ctime>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
long long threshhold = 4 * (RAND_MAX / 9);
int main() {
   srand((unsigned)time(0));
   long long utility = 0;
   long long iterations = 1000000000;
   for(long long i = 0; i < iterations; ++i) {
      if(rand() < threshhold)
         continue;
      else if(rand() < threshhold) {
         utility += 4;
         continue;
      }
      ++utility;
   }
   cout << "avg utility: " << (double)utility/iterations << endl;
   return 0;
}