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An edition of How many licks? (2009)

How many licks?

or, how to estimate damn near anything

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"Rounding off. Sizing up.... Every day we make simple estimations about time, distance, probabilities, and other familiar number concepts. But what about the really big and really small numbers? The kind of numbers that you need to figure out the off-the-wall questions that we amuse ourselves with: Can you really dig your way out of prison with just a spoon? How many years till the Earth is covered in graves? What if you threw a house party and everyone on Earth came... Health issues aside, can a student really afford to live on just ramen noodles for a year? In How Many Licks? physicist Aaron Santos poses fun and far-out problems to demonstrate the user-friendly Fermi method of approximations."--P. [4] of cover.

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How Many Licks?: Or, How to Estimate Damn near Anything
2009, Running Press
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How Many Licks?: Or, How to Estimate Damn near Anything
2009, Running Press
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Table of Contents

Why be approximate?
How to approximate : the Fermi method
Simplify numbers
About the format
One last thing
Puzzlers
Appendices
Abbreviations
Conversions
Useful numbers to know.

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Other Titles
How to estimate damn near anything

Classifications

Library of Congress
QA276.8 .S2564 2009

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175 p. :
Number of pages
175

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Open Library
OL25114792M
Internet Archive
howmanylicksorho00sant
ISBN 10
0762435607
ISBN 13
9780762435609
LCCN
2009927928
OCLC/WorldCat
431550563

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