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Buffon's needle problem visualized

https://ivanludvig.dev/pi-needle/
8•IvanLudvig•2d ago

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IvanLudvig•2d ago
context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffon's_needle_problem
millipede•4h ago
Picking a random orientation depends on trigonometric functions. In order for this to calculate, it would be a lot cooler if it didn't depend on transcendental functions.
LegionMammal978•1h ago
You can pick a uniform random orientation without trig functions by first generating a random point in the unit disk via rejection sampling, then projecting it onto the boundary [0].

Of course, using rejection sampling for disk points will give you an estimate for π more directly.

[0] https://mathworld.wolfram.com/CirclePointPicking.html

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Buffon's needle problem visualized

https://ivanludvig.dev/pi-needle/
8•IvanLudvig•2d ago•3 comments

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