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    probability theory, Buffon's needle problem is a question first posed in the 18th century by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon: Suppose we have a...
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  • the problem of Buffon's noodle is a variation on the well-known problem of Buffon's needle, named after Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon who lived...
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    English translation of Buffon's Natural History Preface for a 1792 English translation of Buffon's Natural History Buffon's needle Rejection sampling Scientific...
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  • curves. In this paper he also presented a solution to Buffon's needle problem, known as Buffon's noodle, that avoided the use of integrals. He began teaching...
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  • 2009. Arndt & Haenel 2006, p. 39. Ramaley, J. F. (October 1969). "Buffon's Needle Problem". The American Mathematical Monthly. 76 (8): 916–918. doi:10.2307/2317945...
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    problems using probabilistic metaheuristics (see simulated annealing). An early variant of the Monte Carlo method was devised to solve the Buffon's needle...
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  • der Waerden's conjecture (6th edition) Littlewood–Offord lemma Buffon's needle problem Pigeonhole principle and double counting, Sperner's lemma Sperner's...
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  • used for wine barrels). 1733 – The French naturalist Comte de Buffon poses his needle problem. Euler comes up with a simple numerical method for integrands...
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  • Press, p. 177 Wegert, Elias; Trefethen, Lloyd N. (1994). "From the Buffon Needle Problem to the Kreiss Matrix Theorem". The American Mathematical Monthly...
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  • x. ISSN 0004-5608. JSTOR 2563023. Rogerson, Peter A. (July 1990). "Buffon's needle and the estimation of migration distances". Mathematical Population...
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  • Buffon's needle Weisstein, Eric W. "Spijker's Lemma". MathWorld. Wegert, Elias; Trefethen, Lloyd N. (February 1994). "From the Buffon Needle Problem to...
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    relating the area of a cyclic quadrilateral to its side lengths Buffon's needle problem – Question in geometric probabilityPages displaying short descriptions...
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    simulations—which themselves date back to the eighteenth century, in the Buffon's needle problem for example—but was popularized for statistical mechanics at Los...
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  • the historically classical Buffon's Needle Problem (1733). One unsolved problem was: what is the probability that a needle randomly tossed onto a set...
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    n} is the number of intersections. This paper, an experiment on Buffon's needle problem, is a very early documented use of random sampling (which Nicholas...
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  • Arithmetic–geometric mean Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula Basel problem Borwein's algorithm Buffon's needle Cadaeic Cadenza Chronology of computation of π Circle...
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  • celebrated case is the problem of Buffon's needle: drop a needle on a floor made of planks and calculate the probability the needle lies across a crack....
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    cut-the-knot. Sylvester, J. J. (1890), "On a funicular solution of Buffon's "problem of the needle" in its most general form", Acta Mathematica, 14 (1): 185–205...
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  • Donsker's theorem Empirical process Wiener equation Wiener sausage Buffon's needle Integral geometry Hadwiger's theorem Wendel's theorem Luck Game of...
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  • general topic became known as geometric probability. (Buffon's needle) What is the chance that a needle dropped randomly onto a floor marked with equally...
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  • naturalist Buffon, and a question he asked about the results of dropping a needle randomly on a striped floor or table. See Buffon's needle. Sources Marco...
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    to study the laws of probability, Wolf performed a Buffon's needle experiment, dropping a needle on a plate 5000 times to verify the value of π, a precursor...
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  • entropy Variance gamma process / fnc Wiener equation Boolean model Buffon's needle Geometric probability Hadwiger's theorem Integral geometry Random coil...
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  • Peter W.; Murai, Takafumi (1988). "Positive analytic capacity but zero Buffon needle probability" (PDF). Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 133 (1): 99–114...
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  • algorithm, which was used by John von Neumann and dates back to Buffon and his needle, obtains a sample from distribution X {\displaystyle X} with density...
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  • "needle/noodle problem". Many mathematicians and other famous people are mentioned in this chapter, including Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon,...
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  • three-dimensional slabs (e.g. 3D microscope images), one-dimensional probes (e.g. needle biopsy), projected images, and other kinds of 'sampling'. It is especially...
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    there is no evidence that the name came through French, instead supporting Buffon's etymology; namely, that the word comes from the Dutch secretaris "secretary"...
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  • the Modular Calculus, Part Five" Appendix A: Postscript Appendix B: Buffon's Needle In earlier editions, the novel The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals was...
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  • (1031–1095), a polymath and statesman who was the first to describe the magnetic-needle compass used for navigation, discovered the concept of true north, improved...
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