How Many Licks?: Or, How to Estimate Damn Near Anything

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How Many Licks?: Or, How to Estimate Damn Near Anything

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, hereâ€™s the way to answer them. And the beauty of it is that itâ€™s all approximate!
Using Enrico Fermiâ€™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.
Santos has done the impossible: make math and the multiple possibilities of numbers fun and informative. Can you really cry a river? Is it possible to dig your way out of jail with just a teaspoon and before your life sentence is up?
Taking an academic subject and using it as the prism to view everyday off-the-wall questions as math problems to be solved is a natural step for the lovers of sudoku, cryptograms, word puzzles, and other thought-provoking games.
Country USA
Manufacturer Running Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780762435609
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Running Press
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780762435609
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

How Many Licks?: Or, How to Estimate Damn Near Anything

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