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One of the more useful skills that you can gain is to become adept and order of magnitude estimation (you will amaze your friends and maybe even win money from them ...:) )
Today we will try a bunch of practice problems to hone our skills.
The basic rule set for doing an estimation problem is
In the problems that follow, we will be using our new interface for publishing results. So
Click here to launch the interface to report your values
To begin with, I will work out on the board the procedure for estimating the number of grains of sand on all the world's beaches. This will give you an example of how to approach these problems.
Estimation questions: (some of these are easy, some are very hard) No fair Googling for the answers in class!
The goal of this exercise is to compare answers and methodologies for arriving at these various estimates.