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How Many Licks? : or, how to estimate damn near anything / Aaron Santos.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Santos, Aaron.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Estimation theory.
- Probabilities.
- probability.
- Penn Provenance:
- Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)
- Physical Description:
- 175, [1] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Distribution:
- London : Running Press,
- Other Title:
- How to estimate damn near anything
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Running Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Why be Approximate?
- How to Approximate: The Fermi Method
- Simplify Numbers
- About the Format
- One Last Thing
- Puzzlers
- Appendices.
- Notes:
- "Design by Joshua McDonnell. Interior Illustration by Mario Zucca. Typography: Helvetica"--Title page verso.
- "Cover Photograph by Joshua McDonnell"--Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Running Press Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.
- Running Press copy is "3" printing.
- ISBN:
- 9780762435609
- 0762435607
- OCLC:
- 431550563
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