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How Many Licks

How Many Licks

Or, How to Estimate Damn Near Anything

by Aaron Santos
Publication Date: 25/08/2009

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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, here's the way to answer them. And the beauty of it is that it's all approximate! Using Enrico Fermi'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.
ISBN:
9780762435609
9780762435609
Category:
Mathematics
Publication Date:
25-08-2009
Language:
English
Publisher:
The Perseus Books Group
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
176
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x10mm
Weight:
0.21kg

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