charlesdaniel/buffonsneedle.java

A Buffon's Needle Drop Monte Carlo Simulator in Java

Buffon's Needle Drop Problem

Introduction

This is a Java simulation implementation of the old Buffon's Needle Drop experiment. It's basically a graphical Monte Carlo simulation of needles being dropped on parallel strips of wood to calculate an estimate of PI.

TL;DR

This will build and run the GUI version

make

Compiling

make build

OR

javac GraphicSimulator.java

Running

make run_gui

OR

java GraphicSimulator

Disclaimer

This is my old University CompSci homework from 2002 (Java has changed since then). While this code is being made public domain, I do ask that you keep your Academic Integrity and not copy this code blindly for your own homework assignment.