Information in Buffon experiments

✍ Scribed by J.M. Robertson; G.R. Wood

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 705 KB
• Volume: 66
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-3758
• DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(97)00060-8

✦ Synopsis

Buffon needle experiments have long been used to estimate x. In this paper we analyse two Buffon grid types: grids consisting of a single bend in a segment, and star grids. We show that the simplest grids allow us to estimate rr most efficiently. Our results build on earlier findings of