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Volume 67 - March 1983

Contents

Page 3 of 11

Research Article

  • Buffon inverted

  • S. Handwich
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 September 2016, pp. 203-206

  • 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?

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