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A comment on Buffon's needle or how ants estimate nest size.

Re:Buffon's needle or how ants estimate nest size by lorenzhs on Saturday September 28, 2019 @01:29PM (#21101622)
There’s a nice chapter on Buffon’s needle problem in “Proofs from THE BOOK”, an Erdős-inspired attempt to collect the most beautiful proofs. You can find a PDF of the entire book easily enough on Google, it’s a good read although I would dispute the beauty of some of the proofs in it.
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Re:Buffon's needle or how ants estimate nest size by targonca on Saturday September 28, 2019 @05:15PM (#21102920)
>although I would dispute the beauty of some of the proofs in it

Agree. In my opinion, the proofs in that book are not so much about beauty, rather how one can prove seemingly complex stuff with surprisingly elementary tools.

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