Buffon’s Needle: Dropping for Pi and the Birth of Monte Carlo
- Author
- Mike Breault
- Published
- Wed 20 Nov 2024
- Episode Link
- None
A lively tour of Buffon’s needle problem, how random needle drops estimate pi, why a grid with negative correlation makes Monte Carlo methods more efficient, and what this means for real-world simulations.
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