Buffon's Example

Georges Buffon History

The History of Pi

Buffon's Needle is a problem first posed by French Naturlist and mathmetician, Comte de Buffon. The experiment consists of dropping a needle on a hardwood floor. The event of interest is to see if the needle crossed one of the floorboard cracks.The probability of this experiment leads to a statistical estimate of pi.

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Java Applet of Buffon's Needle

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