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Numbers Game

In: Powered By Feel How Individuals, Teams, and Companies Excel

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  • James G S Clawson

    (University of Virgina, USA)

  • Doug Newburg

    (University of Florida Medical School, USA)

Abstract

By chance, I'm reading Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot as Doug sends his chapter on physics. There are a lot of numbers in the book — even though it's written for the lay person. The numbers representing the distances in the cosmos, the probabilities of life, the sizes, the length of light waves and radar waves, are so beyond our daily experience they are hard to comprehend. Mastering the numbers is critical to understanding space…

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  • James G S Clawson & Doug Newburg, 2008. "Numbers Game," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Powered By Feel How Individuals, Teams, and Companies Excel, chapter 29, pages 203-208, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789812832436_0029
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