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Buffon's Needle - Calculus Introduction 
Course Topic(s): Probability | Famous Problems, Buffon's needle | Continuous Distributions, uniform and beta
Approaches problem from a calculus viewpoint where the goal is to estimate the probability of a needle of fixed length to land on a line of equally spaced parallel lines. Explanation of the change to the probability as the length of the needle is less than, equal to, and greater than the distance between lines is given. An applet linked on the right hand side, illustrates the estimate of \(\pi\) based \(n\) tosses of a needle.
Resource URL: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BuffonsNeedleProblem.html
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Subject classification(s):
Simulation
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Limit Theorems
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Probability
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Statistics and Probability
Creator(s): Wolfram MathWorld
Contributor(s): Wolfram MathWorld
This resource was cataloged by Carolyn Cuff
Publisher:Wolfram Research, Inc.
Resource copyright: 2011 Wolfram Alpha LLC—A Wolfram Research Company
This review was published on September 20, 2012
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