Moreover, you should know your digit logs base 10:John Richardsim wrote:Heyo! Thanks for reminding me. Here are a couple of sets that I put together last year:Jacobi wrote:Quizlet Rocks!TheChiScientist wrote: ^This is what you do. I would start off by studying the powers (Billion, Trillion etc.) and from there study common facts such as the mass of the sun, values of lightyears, milliseconds etc.
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https://quizlet.com/245983974/fermi-que ... ash-cards/
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(fair warning on the second set there: I wasn't very consistent on putting stuff in exponential form and a few things are very Michigan-specific)
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For logs, I would recommend knowing 3 digits. I would also recommend knowing pi and e, since those do come up.Jacobi wrote:Moreover, you should know your digit logs base 10:John Richardsim wrote:Heyo! Thanks for reminding me. Here are a couple of sets that I put together last year:Jacobi wrote:
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(fair warning on the second set there: I wasn't very consistent on putting stuff in exponential form and a few things are very Michigan-specific)
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I usually approximate both of those with 3, and then go up or down a few as I feel.Unome wrote:For logs, I would recommend knowing 3 digits. I would also recommend knowing pi and e, since those do come up.Jacobi wrote:Moreover, you should know your digit logs base 10:John Richardsim wrote: Heyo! Thanks for reminding me. Here are a couple of sets that I put together last year:
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What are some common conversions/weird units I should know, as someone new to this event?
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Here's a document I made last year: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JyUMav ... sp=sharingacidbeaker wrote:What are some common conversions/weird units I should know, as someone new to this event?
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Hey guys!
As of late, Name and I have been the only two people posting on the Fermi Q's Question Marathon.
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Unfortunately, as much as I'd love to, I have other events I have to work onPM2017 wrote:Hey guys!
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You'll pretty much need to know any sort of conversion. From what I hear from others, astronomical distances like light years or parsecs are good, since those distances are pretty massive. You should also figure out maybe energy conversions, like kilocalories and Joules. Finally also start off with things at the atomic level, like speeds of electrons and charges, and more. Weird units? If we're talking in terms of like exponentials, http://www5.csudh.edu/oliver/chemdata/prefix.htm ought to be a good website for those prefixes like yocto and peta. For more obscure units to know, things could go anywhere, but maybe things like Coulombs, Watts, Webers, Farads, Amperes, Lumen, Volts, Pascals, and more.acidbeaker wrote:What are some common conversions/weird units I should know, as someone new to this event?
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I don't know if this has been asked before, but how would one go about for studying for this event? To me, it seems like a harder, more mathy version of fast fact. Do the two have some similarities?
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They have some similarities in that there is no resources allowed in the event and there is an emphasis on speed (FF speed with recall; Fermi speed with calculation).linzhiyan wrote:I don't know if this has been asked before, but how would one go about for studying for this event? To me, it seems like a harder, more mathy version of fast fact. Do the two have some similarities?
I think a good place to start would be to try taking a few old tests and seeing what sorts of questions are asked. Look for common topics. Look for unfamiliar units. Look for things that may be useful to commit to memory rather than having to estimate every time you see it.
Also start asking and trying to answer your own Fermi questions. Do it whenever you get bored throughout the day.
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