Estimating large numbers the Fermi way

Posted by Kevin Houston on Mar 7, 2013 in Mathematics education, Study techniques | 0 comments

Enrico Fermi as imagined in the video

Here’s a really good introduction to estimating numbers and includes Enrico Fermi‘s famous “How many piano tuners are there in Chicago?”
You can see more like this at TED-Ed.

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