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Buffon inverted

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2016

S. Handwich
S. Handwich*
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In 1777 Georges Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, challenged the French Academy with a problem, now famous, which went as follows:

Parallel lines, d units apart, are ruled on a plane surface; a needle of length l < d units is thrown at random on the plane; what is the probability that it will meet one of the parallel lines?

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 67 , Issue 441 , October 1983 , pp. 203 - 206
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1983

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