Buffon's Toothpicks Run the experiment yourself! Use the 'start' button below to begin dropping toothpicks onto the grid. Watch the value of PI alternate back and forth as it gets closer and closer to 3.14159... (how many dropped toothpicks must there be in order to reach 3.14?) The Java applet should have appeared here. Since it has not, this means (a) your browser is not capable of viewing Java applets (In which caseyou should consider downloading a new browser from Netscape orMicrosoft) or (b) you need to check your browser settings to enable Java.

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