Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago

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Happy pi day! We recreate Buffon's Needle problem in Minecraft by having Drowneds throw their trident at a villager. The proportion of tridents that lie across a line is approximately 2/pi. We use this fact to approximate pi in Minecraft!

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Here's our first approximation of pi.
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