Authors:Lawrence Weinstein, John A. Adam,
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: cocktail, napkin, problems, world, solving, guesstimation
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-04-21
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0691129495
ISBN-13: 9780691129495

Guesstimation is a book that unlocks the power of approximation--it’s popular mathematics rounded to the nearest power of ten! The ability to estimate is an important skill in daily life. More and more leading businesses today use estimation questions in interviews to test applicants’ abilities to think on their feet. Guesstimation enables anyone with basic math and science skills to estimate virtually anything--quickly--using plausible assumptions and elementary arithmetic. Lawrence Weinstein and John Adam present an eclectic array of estimation problems that range from devilishly