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 The TED talk by Sanjoy Mahajan summarizes the philosophy "striving for too much rigor can stop progress in science and technology". Perfect is the enemy of good enough. When we recognize that we don't need an exact solution, we can do The TED talk by Sanjoy Mahajan summarizes the philosophy "striving for too much rigor can stop progress in science and technology". Perfect is the enemy of good enough. When we recognize that we don't need an exact solution, we can do
   * a Fermi problem,   * a Fermi problem,
-  * a back-of-the-envelope estimate, +  * or a coarse-grained model, 
-  * and/or a coarse-grained model.+  * which are both examples of back-of-the-envelope estimates.
  
 A great video explaining Fermi problems: A great video explaining Fermi problems:
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