On two historical aspects of Buffon's needle problem

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Authors Prakash Gorroochurn, Bruce Levin

Publication date 13 September 2016

Published in Journal Électronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://www.emis.de/journals/JEHPS/decembre2013/GorroochurnLevin.pdf, http://www.jehps.net/decembre2013/GorroochurnLevin.pdf

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Buffon's needle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Random convex sets and integral geometry (aspects of convex geometry) (52A22) History of probability theory (60-03) Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05)

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