Aaron Santos over at A Diary of Numbers, author of How Many Licks?, has posted a Fermi Contest.
For the uninitiated, a Fermi Problem is a seemingly unanswerable problem, which you can actually estimate reasonable by breaking the problem down into smaller parts. They're really fun, and I intend to post more in the future.
The question at hand is: How far would the oceans sink if we took all the fish out?
I'll answer in two very different ways.
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Friday, April 9, 2010
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