Timeline for buffon needle experiment [closed]
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| Apr 4, 2012 at 21:15 | history | closed |
Henry Cohn Andreas Blass Andy Putman Dan Petersen Alain Valette |
not a real question | |
| Apr 4, 2012 at 20:00 | answer | added | Arthur B | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 4, 2012 at 19:10 | answer | added | Bernard | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 4, 2012 at 18:50 | answer | added | Pietro Majer | timeline score: 6 | |
| Apr 4, 2012 at 14:11 | comment | added | Ramsey | I suppose that you could realquestionify this by considering how the expected number of needle drops required to approximate $\pi$ to within a given amount depends on $l$ and $d$. I wondered about that once recently when discussing this with someone, but didn't get around to thinking about it | |
| Apr 4, 2012 at 13:09 | comment | added | Henry Cohn | It's not clear what "Does it have to be l-d-1.0 or ld?" means. Overall, Buffon's needle is entertaining and beautiful, but it's a terrible way to compute $\pi$ (no matter how you set it up). | |
| Apr 4, 2012 at 12:51 | comment | added | André Henriques | Note that it is only the ratio $l/d$ that matters. | |
| Apr 4, 2012 at 12:03 | answer | added | Allen Knutson | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 4, 2012 at 11:18 | history | asked | spyros | CC BY-SA 3.0 |