A clever way to estimate enormous numbers - Michael Mitchell
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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.
Devise a problem that you can solve using Fermi's method of estimation. Make sure you can solve the problem yourself, and then keep it tucked away to share with your friends. Explain the problem you designed below!
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- Animator Mark Phillips
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