PhilipL comments on Fermi Estimates - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 13 April 2013 12:06:58AM 7 points [-]

There are 3141 counties in the US. This is easy to remember because it's just the first four digits of pi (which you already have memorised, right?).

Comment author: [deleted] 13 April 2013 02:01:37AM 1 point [-]

This reminds me of the surprisingly accurate approximation of pi x 10^7 seconds in a year.

Comment author: shaih 15 April 2013 10:53:07PM 1 point [-]

This chart has been extremely helpful to me in school and is full of weird approximation like the two above.