Buffon's Needle app for iPhone and iPad

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Developer: Cloud Flame

0.99 USD

Current version: 1.0, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 16 Mar 2016
App size: 3.12 Mb

A few hundred years ago people enjoyed betting on coins tossed on to the floor ... would they cross a line or not?

A man (Georges-Louis Leclerc, the Count of Buffon) started thinking about this and worked out the probability to approach π (Pi). It is called "Buffons Needle" in his honor.

This app is a simulator based on one of the oldest problems in geometrical probability approximates Pi. Put other words, estimating Pi by Dropping Sticks.