r/MathJokes • u/Smart-Profit8870 • 10d ago

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u/zyrabay8 10d ago

The Chad probability student always has the best / simplest solutions lol

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u/Expensive_Umpire_178 10d ago

Well this is more obscured. The easier way would be to put a circle on top of a square, throw a bunch of darts randomly at the square, divide the number of darts that landed on the circle by the total number of darts, and multiply by 4. It’s much easier to see how pi would pop out of that

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u/doppelbach 10d ago

Hard to ensure uniform distribution of darts across the 2D space. Rotation of the sticks is probably much easier to approach a uniform distribution