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With darts: https://www.youtube.com/embed/M34TO71SKGk https://www.youtube.com/embed/M34TO71SKGk
by bingaling 10y ago
With darts: https://www.youtube.com/embed/M34TO71SKGk https://www.youtube.com/embed/M34TO71SKGk
- forinti 10y agoBeer would probably help the calculation.
- woof 10y ago"Does that look random to you?" https://youtu.be/M34TO71SKGk?t=1m20s https://youtu.be/M34TO71SKGk?t=1m20s Golden!
- vacri 10y agoI remember a Mythbusters episode where they were building a buttered-toast-dropper. To test the null hypothesis, they first did 10 runs without buttered toast, just marking one side with an X. They got 7/10 landing the same way up... and declared "It should be 5/10! This is not random enough!"...
- woof 10y agoOne hour Radiolab worth listening to: http://www.radiolab.org/story/91684-stochasticity/ http://www.radiolab.org/story/91684-stochasticity/
- contravariant 10y agoI prefer Buffon's needle method as a 'physical' way of calculating pi.
- jps359 10y agothe intro to this video explained the calculation very well (up to 1 minute)