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La Baguette Mathémagique
Julyan H. E. Cartwright
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If you throw a needle or stick at random onto a floor ruled with parallel lines, such as the cracks between floorboards or tiles, from the proportion of times that the stick lands crossing a crack you can estimate π; can we get e as well? Yes, we can. All of these aspects have been discussed before, but I haven't seen them discussed in this way: that one can estimate both π and e with the same Buffon's needle experiment.
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