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## Asking the maths library
My computer tells me that $\pi$ is approximatively
```{r pi}
pi
```
##Buffon’s needle
Applying the method of [Buffon’s needle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffon%27s_needle_problem), we get the approssimazione
```{r Buffon}
set.seed(42)
N = 100000
x = runif(N)
theta = pi/2*runif(N)
2/(mean(x+sin(theta)>1))
```
When you click on the button **Knit**, the document will be compiled in order to re-execute the R code and to include the results into the final document. As we have shown in the video, R code is inserted as follows:
```{r cars}
summary(cars)
##Using a surface fraction argument
A method that is easier to understand and does not make use of the $\sin$ function is based on the fact that if $X \sim U(0,1)$ and $Y \sim U(0,1)$, then $P[X^2+Y^2 \le 1]=\pi / 4 (see [“Monte Carlo method” on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method)). The following code uses this approach:
It is therefore straightforward to obtain a (not really good) approximation to \pi by counting how many times, on average, $X^2 + Y^2$ is smaller than 1 :
```{r surface-frac2}
4*mean(df$Accept)
```
It is also straightforward to include figures. For example: