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Estimating the cost of bad investments, or how much did the Church lose on you?

cherie, September 28, 2008

The NYTimes recently mentioned the Fermi game of figuring “ballpark” estimates of real-world numbers for questions you, at first glance, think of as un-estimatable – for example, how many piano tuners are there in Chicago? Though I am generally bad at math (and shun it), I like this game, and…

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