> population of New York City
15 million?
> and the weight of a Boeing 747
600 tons?
> and the number of languages spoken in the world
15,000?
How'd I do? I don't know any of these though, I just guessed. I think I'm probably within an order of magnitude but I'll let you decide.
Your approximations are pretty good! Next time just divide by 2 and you’re good ;)
When I was a baby I asked my dad to draw power outlets, we had Legos, we’ve visited dozens of factories, I did a dozen programming languages before 18, I’ve always gathered data about things (Ok a nuclear plant is 1GW, a plane has 20t of fuel, etc), and I’m an average engineer.
Meanwhile my bigger sister has technical but never much about making things work, we went to the same engineering school but she ended up project manager because she can’t do the engineering job. So she manages people.