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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Estimate numbers

How to estimate numbers


Have you ever tried to guess how many pieces of candy there are in a jar? Or tackled a mindbender like: “How many piano tuners are there in Chicago?” Physicist Enrico Fermi was very good at problems like these -- learn how he used the power of 10 to make amazingly fast estimations of big numbers.




Source : http://ed.ted.com/lessons/michael-mitchell-a-clever-way-to-estimate-enormous-numbers