Buffon's Needle/Historical Note

Historical Note on Buffon's Needle
published this problem in his Histoire Naturelle in $1777$.

extended the problem to a general rectangular grid, thus creating what is now sometimes referred to as the Buffon-Laplace Problem.

reports that a pupil of his once performed a practical experiment using Buffon's Needle to calculate a value for $\pi$.

After $600$ trials, a value of $3.137$ was obtained.