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= Buffon's needle problem
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Buffon's needle is a probabilistic problem that involves dropping a needle of a certain length onto a plane with parallel lines drawn at regular intervals. The problem was first posed by the French mathematician Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, in the 18th century. Here's the set-up of the problem: 1. **Needle and Lines**: Imagine a plane with equally spaced parallel lines that are a distance \\( d \\) apart.