Monday, May 4, 2015

Estimating

Pink Ballerina likes to think she's a card shark and she challenged me to play Rummy with her.

We played 5 games, and I was doing very well. Pink Ballerina asks, so what's the score anyway? I quickly glanced over my scores and said "about 700 something." Pink says, "that's no answer. Let me see that." So she looks over my scores.

She whips out a calculator and says, triumphantly, "that's not 700 something, that's 707."

I said, "do you realize that 707 is only 1% more than 700? I gave you a very accurate estimate just using my head."