Buffon's needle problem visualized

IvanLudvig 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffon's_needle_problem

millipede 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Picking a random orientation depends on trigonometric functions. In order for this to calculate, it would be a lot cooler if it didn't depend on transcendental functions.

	▲	LegionMammal978 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		You can pick a uniform random orientation without trig functions by first generating a random point in the unit disk via rejection sampling, then projecting it onto the boundary [0]. Of course, using rejection sampling for disk points will give you an estimate for π more directly. [0] https://mathworld.wolfram.com/CirclePointPicking.html

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nom a day ago | parent | prev [-]

It's not numerically converging for me, no matter how long I run it.