for anyone who may want to get me off the hook… er, I mean take a crack at solving “Dr. Pepper”s earlier riddle, it’s reported below
Let’s say you have a table with equal distant parallel lines running the length of the table, as follows (viewed from above):
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You randomly drop a pencil onto the table.
What are the chances of the pencil hitting a line?
Extra Credit- If the length of the pencil is shorter than the distance between two consecutive lines- what famous constant will you estimate?
(No asking “squeak”. you may ask “I can only try”, as he is typically clueless. [no, that’s not exactly how it was posted originally ?])