Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Fermi Estimates - Less Wrong

51 Post author: lukeprog 11 April 2013 05:52PM

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 06 April 2013 11:46:53PM *  2 points [-]

This conversation happened something like a month ago, and it was Marcello using this approach, not me, so my memory of what Marcello did is fuzzy, but IIRC he used a big number.

The distribution of population shouldn't be exactly uniform with respect to age, although it's probably more uniform now than it used to be.