Pi and Buffon's Matches - Numberphile
Dr Tony Padilla's unique (and low budget) twist on the Buffon's Needle experiment to learn the true value of Pi. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ OUR PI VIDEOS --- ALEX...
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TONY PADILLA: We're going to do Buffon's needle trick. So this is named after Georges Louie Leclerc, and this is a method that he proposed for working out pi. So basically he proposed that you would chuck a bunch of needles just randomly on a floor. You can work out pi from that, yeah. BRADY HARAN: Go on, then. TONY PADILLA: Due to the random nature. So anyway, we haven't got needles, and we're not going to do it on a floor. We're going to do it on one of Brady's lovely brown pieces of paper. And we're going to use matches instead, because we're cheap. So what we want is we want to draw some lines on this. So there's one line. And what we want is we want the gaps between lines to be two matches long. This is all...
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TONY PADILLA: We're going to do Buffon's needle trick. So this is named after Georges Louie Leclerc, and this is a method that he proposed for working out pi. So basically he proposed that you would chuck a bunch of needles just randomly on a floor. You can work out pi from that, yeah. BRADY HARAN: Go on, then. TONY PADILLA: Due to the random nature. So anyway, we haven't got needles, and we're not going to do it on a floor. We're going to do it on one of Brady's lovely brown pieces of paper. And we're going to use matches instead, because we're cheap. So what we want is we want to draw some lines on this. So there's one line. And what we want is we want the gaps between lines to be two matches long. This is all...
