AiS Challenge Team Abstract
Team Number: 16
School Name: Summer Teacher Institute
Area of Science: Mathematics
Project Title: A Reexamination of Buffon's Needle
Buffon's Needle is a very old random distribution experiment. It seems
that le Compte de Buffon(doesn't that mean clown?), being of the
aristocracy, had insufficient tasks
to occupy his time and one afternoon (probably after too many glasses of
vin with the boys) tripped and spilled his wife's sewing basket. After
many similar events, he discovered that the probability of one of the
needles actually
falling across a crack in the floor (remember, needles were expensive in
the eighteenth century) approached the value of pi when performed many
times. Since the results of the experiment have already been determined by
any number of inebriated Frenchmen, we intend to use it as a study of the
development of another type of mathematical model.
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