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Buffon's Coin Problem and Beyond
Author(s) -
Schneiter Kady
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2010.00433.x
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , java applet , computer science , mathematics , artificial intelligence , programming language , java
Summary This article describes an investigation of Buffon's coin problem and related problems with the aid of an applet. The problems are accessible at a variety of grade levels and facilitate making connections between geometry and probability.