Mastering Large Numbers: A Clever Estimation Technique 🧮
Discover an ingenious method to estimate enormous quantities with ease. Join Michael Mitchell as he reveals how to make sense of massive numbers effortlessly!
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1.0M views • Sep 12, 2012
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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.
Lesson by Michael Mitchell, animation by Mark Phillips.
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.
Lesson by Michael Mitchell, animation by Mark Phillips.
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