How to Calculate π by Tossing Needles on the Floor
The Famous Buffon’s Needle Problem
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5 min readApr 24, 2020
The leading evolutionary biologist and polymath Ernst Mayr described the French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788), as:
“Truly, […] the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of…