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001 2009927928
003 DLC
005 20111128073638.0
008 090504s2009 paua 000 0 eng c
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020 $a9780762435609 (pbk.)
020 $a0762435607 (pbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn431550563
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050 00 $aQA276.8$b.S2564 2009
100 1 $aSantos, Aaron.
245 10 $aHow many licks? :$bor, how to estimate damn near anything /$cAaron Santos.
246 30 $aHow to estimate damn near anything
260 $aPhiladelphia ;$aLondon :$bRunning Press,$cc2009.
300 $a175 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
505 0 $aWhy be approximate? -- How to approximate : the Fermi method -- Simplify numbers -- About the format -- One last thing -- Puzzlers -- Appendices -- Abbreviations -- Conversions -- Useful numbers to know.
520 $a"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.
650 0 $aEstimation theory.
650 0 $aProbabilities.