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A clever way to estimate enormous numbers - Michael Mitchell - YouTube

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Have you ever tried to guess how many pieces of candy there are in a jar? Or tackled a mindbender like: “How many piano tuners are there in Chicago?” Physicist Enrico Fermi was very good at problems like these -- learn how he used the power of 10 to make amazingly fast estimations of big numbers.

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Estimation-Techniques
Large-Numbers
Math-Skills
Problem-Solving
Quick-Calculations
Number-Sense
Mathematical-Thinking
Clever-Methods
Logical-Reasoning
Educational-Video

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