Please collect your bear

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Jezza – can you please come and collect your bear! He dropped in on me the other day – I have no idea why. Anyway, he asked me for a needle, a piece of ruled paper and then proceeded to do something with the needle for about 20 minutes. At which stage, he mumbled “ah, I thought so – that reminds me, I am feeling hungry” and went and raided my fridge.

1) What was he doing?
2) What did he eat?

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1) He was determining the value of pi by a probabilistic method (he repeatedly dropped the needle on the paper at random; the probability that the needle crosses one of the lines of the ruled paper has to do with pi)
2) He ate some pie

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Correct. Have an piece of [pie] – untouched by human hands! See here for further reference.

Do you believe it! That bear is now sleeping in my chair!

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