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BOOK LIST | Guesstimation: Solving the World’s Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin

By Science News

- More than 2 years ago

Learn to use simple arithmetic to approximate anything.

Princeton Univ. Press, 2008, 300 p. $19.95

GUESSTIMATION

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