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NeilMehta wrote:
hippohungry wrote:Do any of you guys have a list of stuff you should memorize?
A few that might help:
-Sheets of paper in an inch
-Inch/Feet/Mile
-Radius of the earth
-Ratio of radius of earth to sun and earth to jupiter
-One AU
-Speed of light
-Height of well-known structures (Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, etc)
-Size of the observable universe, Milky Way, distance to Andromeda galaxy
-Number of liters in the Pacific and Atlantic ocean (sounds specific, but related questions are incredibly common)
-General idea of US geography (know the distance from top to bottom, be able to estimate size of a state
-General idea of how big cars/school busses/etc are
-Log 2,3,4,5 (will make exponent questions so much faster)
Honestly, it's a good idea to practice with questions on http://www.fermiquestions.com to get an idea for common ones
Wow, Neil, I'm impressed. Division B and already Fermi-ready. I would never be able to do that.
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Tailsfan101 wrote:
NeilMehta wrote:
hippohungry wrote:Do any of you guys have a list of stuff you should memorize?
A few that might help:
-Sheets of paper in an inch
-Inch/Feet/Mile
-Radius of the earth
-Ratio of radius of earth to sun and earth to jupiter
-One AU
-Speed of light
-Height of well-known structures (Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, etc)
-Size of the observable universe, Milky Way, distance to Andromeda galaxy
-Number of liters in the Pacific and Atlantic ocean (sounds specific, but related questions are incredibly common)
-General idea of US geography (know the distance from top to bottom, be able to estimate size of a state
-General idea of how big cars/school busses/etc are
-Log 2,3,4,5 (will make exponent questions so much faster)
Honestly, it's a good idea to practice with questions on http://www.fermiquestions.com to get an idea for common ones
Wow, Neil, I'm impressed. Division B and already Fermi-ready. I would never be able to do that.
Wait, why is he (neil) doing this then?
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PM2017 wrote:
Tailsfan101 wrote:
NeilMehta wrote: A few that might help:
-Sheets of paper in an inch
-Inch/Feet/Mile
-Radius of the earth
-Ratio of radius of earth to sun and earth to jupiter
-One AU
-Speed of light
-Height of well-known structures (Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, etc)
-Size of the observable universe, Milky Way, distance to Andromeda galaxy
-Number of liters in the Pacific and Atlantic ocean (sounds specific, but related questions are incredibly common)
-General idea of US geography (know the distance from top to bottom, be able to estimate size of a state
-General idea of how big cars/school busses/etc are
-Log 2,3,4,5 (will make exponent questions so much faster)
Honestly, it's a good idea to practice with questions on http://www.fermiquestions.com to get an idea for common ones
Wow, Neil, I'm impressed. Division B and already Fermi-ready. I would never be able to do that.
Wait, why is he (neil) doing this then?
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Re: Fermi Questions C

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Other than memorizing a bunch of facts, is there another way to practice for this event?
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hippohungry wrote:Other than memorizing a bunch of facts, is there another way to practice for this event?
Do some practice tests, use http://www.fermiquestions.com/play, work strategy with your partner etc.
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Why would you memorize logs for anything other than prime numbers? For all non-primes, just use log rules to figure them out based on the prime logs.
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whythelongface wrote:Why would you memorize logs for anything other than prime numbers? For all non-primes, just use log rules to figure them out based on the prime logs.
For primes smaller than 10, I memorize all the logs, simply because it's more convenient imo. (Above ten, I might try to memorize some more primes, but only primes)
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Does anyone have an idea of what the top national scores would be per question (this obviously depends on the difficulty of the test)?
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BoostedSheki wrote:Does anyone have an idea of what the top national scores would be per question (this obviously depends on the difficulty of the test)?
I know ward Melville averaged a 4.125 pts/question at UPenn I'll probably expect it to be a bit higher then that
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