gwern comments on Fermi Estimates - Less Wrong
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Write down your own Fermi estimation attempts here. One Fermi estimate per comment, please!
A running list of my own: http://www.gwern.net/Notes#fermi-calculations (And there's a number of them floating around predictionbook.com; Fermi-style loose reasoning is great for constraining predictions.)