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Knowledge you can work with...
Deep understanding
Fermi Questions
On Being Approximate

Scale of some things

On Being Approximate

Simple models

Some handy approximations
A ball's volume and area are 1/2 of its box's
trig

A View from the Back of the Envelope
Comments encouraged. - Mitchell N Charity <mcharity@lcs.mit.edu>