Buffon's problem with a long needle
- 1 September 1976
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability
- Vol. 13 (3) , 614-618
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3212484
Abstract
A needle of length l dropped at random on a grid of parallel lines of distance d apart can have multiple intersections if l > d. The distribution of the number of intersections and approximate moments for large l are derived. The distribution is shown to converge weakly to an arc sine law as l/d→∞.Keywords
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