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Apr 20'25
Exercise
[math]
\newcommand{\mathds}{\mathbb}[/math]
Show that the probability for a length [math]1[/math] needle to intersect, when thrown, a [math]1[/math]-spaced grid is [math]2/\pi[/math], and then comment on the estimate on
[[math]]
\pi=3.1415\ldots
[[/math]]
that you obtain in this way.