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Buffon's needle problem visualized

19 pointsby IvanLudviglast Saturday at 11:34 PM3 commentsview on HN

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millipedeyesterday at 10:27 PM

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.

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