Estimating Pi

probability

Published

March 15, 2021

Sourced from Twitter on Pi Day (this also doubles up as a hint).

Take two random numbers X and Y between 0 and 1.

What is the probability that the integer nearest to X/Y is even?

Solution

Folks, here’s one way to reason why this probability should be (5 - pi)/4.

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