An over-charitable investigation of an attempt to calculate the irrational number π by casting a needle at random onto a ruled grid arrives at the conclusion that the experiment was never carried out.
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Maddox, J. False calculation of π by experiment. Nature 370, 323 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/370323a0
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