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Guesstimation 2.0

Solving Today's Problems on the Back of a Napkin 2.0 by Lawrence Weinstein

By Science News

A handy guide helps readers learn to approximate almost anything, from the energy needed to ship a tomato to the length of toilet paper used in the United States.

Princeton Univ., 2012, 359 p., $19.95

A version of this article appears in the February 9, 2013 issue of Science News.

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