A back-of-the-envelope calculation is a rough calculation, typically jotted down on any available scrap of paper such as an envelope. It is more than a...

rule-of-thumb or back-of-the-envelope calculation may be checked to perform the test. The advantage of performing an initial sanity test is that of speedily evaluating...

analysis or approximation of extreme scientific calculations. Fermi problems are usually back-of-the-envelope calculations. The estimation technique is...

Office of Personnel Management website list of standard forms. Back-of-the-envelope calculation ✉ Envelope character in the Dingbats section of Unicode...

called "Back of the Envelope" (BOTE). Back-of-the-envelope calculation Guesstimate Heuristic Rule of thumb Lasky, Melvin J. (2005). The Language of Journalism:...

nominal contents. Abundance estimation Ansatz Ballpark estimate Back-of-the-envelope calculation Conjecture Cost estimate Estimation statistics Estimation theory...

(about 60 tons). Ansatz Back-of-the-envelope calculation Heuristic Scientific wild-ass guess Look up guesstimate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. guess...

downloaded: "In a back-of-the-envelope calculation a few days before the offsite crawl was shut down, Swartz guessed he got around 25 percent of the documents...

did a back-of-the-envelope calculation showing that an atomic clock aboard a commercial airliner should have sufficient precision to detect the predicted...

proposals to get one grant. A back-of-the-envelope calculation would yield a cost of about $480,000,000 for an allocation of $30,000,000. This cost does...