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Re:My observations during the explosion at Trinity (1945) by de_Selby on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @05:17PM (#12738804)
Fermi was famous for this kind of thing, he could calculate the answer to a problem where it seemed like there wasn't enough information as if by magic.
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Re:My observations during the explosion at Trinity (1945) by dekhn on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @09:36AM (#12743613)
Not calculate, estimate. You come up with a simple mathematical model- often just adding or multipling a few numbers together. It's not magic, he just had a good sense for including all the 0th and 1st order terms.
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