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Buffon's Needle Problem

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This sketch shows an approximation to PI with "Buffon's Needle". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffon%27s_needle) the ratio of needles( red/black lines are placed at random) which intersect with the grid and those which dont is an approximation to PI. ------------------- keys --------------- 'spacebar' - restart approximation 'p' - pause on/off -----------------------------------------
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