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How many licks?: or, how to estimate damn near anything

By: Publication details: Running Press 2009 LondonDescription: 175 pISBN:
  • 9780762435609
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 519.544 S2H6
Summary: "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? Can you really dig your way out of prison with just a spoon? Health issues aside, can a student really afford to live on just ramen noodles for a year? In this book, the author poses fun and far-out problems to demonstrate the user-friendly Fermi method of approximations.
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Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 33-A / Slot 1678 (2nd Floor, East Wing) Non-fiction General Stacks 519.544 S2H6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 191948

Table of Contents:


1. Why be approximate?
2. How to approximate: the Fermi method
3. Simplify numbers
4. About the format
5. One last thing.


"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? Can you really dig your way out of prison with just a spoon? Health issues aside, can a student really afford to live on just ramen noodles for a year? In this book, the author poses fun and far-out problems to demonstrate the user-friendly Fermi method of approximations.

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