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Comment author: A11AF82 17 August 2012 02:18:16AM *  6 points [-]

and I have seen Fermi estimates for quantities like e.g. the mass of the Earth apparently extract narrow and correct estimations out of the sums of multiple widely erroneous steps.

out of how many wrong/wide estimates using the same method?

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