udupendra ([info]udupendra) wrote in [info]kqaquizzes,
@ 2008-07-18 23:20:00
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Today's Question CCCXLIII
How many quiz books are available in Cochin? How many bottles of coconut oil is needed per month to cater to the needs of the students of Mattancherry High School? How many people are watching a Shakeela movie in North Kerala at any given point of time? While Thomas Masun busies himself answering these questions, others need to just name the Nobel Laureate by whose name such estimation problems are known.

Enrico Fermi. Check http://iws.ccccd.edu/mbrooks/demos/fermi_questions.htm for a couple of classic examples.


13 of you gave an approximately correct estimation.


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Enrico Fermi
[info]ramdaz
2008-07-18 06:50 pm UTC (link)
Enrico Fermi

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Googol tells me
[info]jakespeak
2008-07-18 07:27 pm UTC (link)
that is Enrico Fermi. Good question, I did not know that such had a name.

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[info]malcaluffin
2008-07-18 07:53 pm UTC (link)
Joseph E. Stiglitz

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[info]thecluelessanon
2008-07-19 12:52 am UTC (link)
Fermi

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Enrico Fermi
[info]sbcmouli
2008-07-19 02:21 am UTC (link)
Enrico Fermi

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(Anonymous)
2008-07-19 03:45 am UTC (link)
enrico fermi

- akila

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Enrico Fermi!
(Anonymous)
2008-07-19 04:00 am UTC (link)
These are referred as "Fermi Problems"..

- Dinesh.

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(Anonymous)
2008-07-19 04:02 am UTC (link)
Fermi Question ?

--Ajay Parasuraman

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(Anonymous)
2008-07-19 04:45 am UTC (link)
Enrico fermi

anil raghavan

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Fermi Questions
(Anonymous)
2008-07-19 05:30 am UTC (link)
Fermi Questions, Enrico Fermi

was to be a question in the SMQ (Shaastra Main Quiz), but alas.... :(

-Srivats

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Fermi estimate
[info]kguneet
2008-07-19 06:09 am UTC (link)
Fermi estimate

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Venky's Answer
(Anonymous)
2008-07-19 06:11 am UTC (link)
Enrico Fermi and Fermi Questions

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(Anonymous)
2008-07-19 07:13 am UTC (link)
fermi..


rohan

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[info]getting_bitter
2008-07-19 07:25 am UTC (link)
Fermi problems.

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Ragnar Frisch Model?
(Anonymous)
2008-07-19 04:57 pm UTC (link)
Once Masun has the answers to the problems you have set him, maybe it will be time to rename it

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