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

Santos, Aaron

 
9780762435609: How Many Licks?: Or, How to Estimate Damn Near Anything
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0762435607 ISBN 13: 9780762435609
Verlag: Running Press, 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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Aaron Santos graduated from MIT in 2001 with a bachelor's degree in physics and a concentration in Theater Arts. Santos is a recent graduate of Boston University with a PhD in physics. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Verlag
Running Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0762435607
ISBN 13 
9780762435609
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
176
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