Buffon's Needle Problem
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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 .
Contributed by: Ed Pegg Jr and Eric W. Weisstein (March 2011)
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Published: March 7 2011