A View from the Back of the Envelope
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Description: About approximation and the fun it enables. Includes examples, exercises, and links to help grasp concepts such as measurement, scale and magnitude. Sections include simplifying numbers, exponential notation, Fermi problems, using your body as a ruler, and other ways to visualize size and scale.
A View from the Back of the Envelope These pages are about approximation, and some of the fun it enables. You can always get back to this page by clicking on Scaling the universe to your desktop . Another example of simplifying is
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| Date | Creation Date: 1997-04-18T04:00:00Z Expiry Date: 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z |