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Winter
2003
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Date
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Presenter(s)
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Title
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29Jan03
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Mr.
Joe Lowry
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Learning
to Estimate
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Description
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useful skill to have is the ability to make numerical estimates.
Why is this useful? To quickly get a feel for important factors,
and to perform "sanity checks" on more complex calculations. Estimating
involves dealing with uncertainty, gathering information, and assessing
how accurate the information needs to be. Estimation exercises are
sometimes called "Fermi Questions"; we'll try a few!
339 Strong Hall,
noon |
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