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Zack_M_Davis comments on Where Fermi Fails: What is hard to estimate? - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: tgb 05 June 2012 03:15AM

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Comment author: Zack_M_Davis 05 June 2012 07:11:16AM 4 points [-]

He's probably using "tangent" to mean derivative.

Comment author: [deleted] 05 June 2012 07:14:06AM 0 points [-]

That's my working assumption, but you never know.