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Great estimations, or, how to have fun calculating damn near everything [electronic resource] / Aaron Santos.
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Santos, Aaron.
New York : Perseus Books Group, 2009.
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Estimation theory.
Probabilities.
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How many licks to the center of a Tootsie Pop? How many people are having sex at this moment? How long would it take a monkey on a typewriter to produce the plays of Shakespeare? For all those questions that keep you up at night, here's the way to answer them. And the beauty of it is that it's all approximate! Using Enrico Fermi's theory of approximation, Santos brings the world of numbers into perspective. For puzzle junkies and trivia fanatics, these 70 word puzzles will show the reader how to take a bit of information, add what they already know, and extrapolate an answer.
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