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> you will need an infinite number of throws It's worse than that: you also need an unambiguous way of determining whether the needle is overlapping a stripe.
by lisper 2y ago
> you will need an infinite number of throws
It's worse than that: you also need an unambiguous way of determining whether the needle is overlapping a stripe.
- skirmish 2y agoThat would affect only a few borderline trials and would average out with subsequent throws. It would be much more worrisome that the length of a needle or the width of a stripe is not infinitely precise, that would consistently affect all the trials.