Buffon's Coin Problem: Background
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de
Buffon
(1707 – 1788) was a french mathematician and naturalist. He began the study of geometric probability with his coin and needle problems. Geometric probabilities are computed by the comparison of measurements.
Geometric Probability
involves the comparison of measurements to compute probabilities.
Instructions
For a discussion of problems that can be investigated with this applet, see: Schneiter, K. (2011).
Buffon's Coin Problem and Beyond.
Teaching Statistics.
33(2).