Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Fermi Estimates - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Kindly 08 April 2013 10:31:22PM 2 points [-]

Sorry. The probability is in the range [1e-17, 1e17].

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 09 April 2013 05:17:54AM 3 points [-]

That is a large probability.

Comment author: Decius 18 April 2013 04:43:21AM 1 point [-]

It's for when you need to be a thousand million billion percent sure of something.