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back-of-an-envelope

adj

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  1. Alternative form of back-of-the-envelope.

    • On one defense item, somebody kept referring to it as a back-of-an-envelope cost estimate. Do you have a back-on-an-envelope cost estimate?
    • Misapplying a basic feature of diffusion theory, [Werner] Heisenberg arrived at an impossibly high figure for a critical mass of pure U235. This was done by means of a seductively simple "back of an envelope" calculation in 1940, […]

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