An essential first step was made with the Statistical Temperature Monte Carlo (STMC) algorithm. WLMC requires an extensive increase in the number of energy bins with system size, caused by working directly with the density of states. STMC is centered on an intensive quantity, the statistical temperature, T ( E ) = 1 / ( d S ( E ) / d E ) , where E is the potential energy. When combined with the relation, Ω Ω ( E ) = e S ( E ) , where we set k B = 1 , the WL rule for updating the density of states gives the rule for updating the discretized statistical temperature,