Buffon's Needle Problem

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number of needles (N)
200
needle length (L)
0.6
random seed
Toss a box of N needles onto a floor with parallel lines. Count the number of hits—that is, the number of times that a needle crosses a line. This turns out to be a method for estimating
π
.

External Links

Buffon's Needle Problem (Wolfram MathWorld)

Permanent Citation

Ed Pegg Jr, Eric W. Weisstein
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​"Buffon's Needle Problem" from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/BuffonsNeedleProblem/​
​Published: March 14, 2008
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