lukeprog comments on Fermi Estimates - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: TsviBT 06 April 2013 11:27:06PM 8 points [-]

You did much better in Example #2 than you thought; the conclusion should read

60 fatalities per crash × 100 crashes with fatalities over the past 20 years = 6000 passenger fatalities from passenger-jet crashes in the past 20 years

which looks like a Fermi victory (albeit an arithmetic fail).

Comment author: lukeprog 07 April 2013 12:05:59AM 0 points [-]

Lol! Fixed.

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