Michael Mitchell: A clever way to estimate enormous numbers

Have you ever tried to guess how many pieces of candy there are in a jar? Physicist Enrico Fermi was very good at problems like these. A guide on how to make reasonable guesses on huge numbers by using the power of 10.

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