Buffon's Needle Problem
Imagine you have a notepad with
the lines ruled 50mm apart. Then
imagine you have to throw a 25mm
needle onto the notepad.
The question usually associated with
this model is :
What is the probability of the needle
falling on one of the ruled lines?
It can be figured by throwing the needle
[n tends to infinity] times and finding
the percentage of successes .
Buffon claimed that the ratio throws:hits
converged to Pi.
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