Joe Trippi kindly ran some back-of-the-envelope math for me.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Much is YouTube Worth to Obama and McCain?] Reference

I had a lot of fun with the back-of-the-envelope calculations.    From Wordnik.com.  [8/1/08: Launch Pad, day 2] Reference

Guitarist Glenn Frey did some back-of-the-envelope math of his own.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Artists Steer Clear of iTunes] Reference

Here is a back-of-the-envelope way to look at how much is involved.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Google Could Keep Yahoo From Microsoft - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

For example, let's take a back-of-the-envelope look at the housing market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henry Blodget: Everything's Going To Zero] Reference

Mr. Thrun's estimate may be back-of-the-envelope, but it's not unrealistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Decaffeinated] Reference

I used the same back-of-the-envelope math as Blinder to compute the result.    From Wordnik.com.  [Research desk explains: How effective would deficit-neutral stimulus be?] Reference

Like all back-of-the-envelope calculations, this one has a lot of wiggle room.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Make Wealth] Reference

SERWER: That's a pretty good back-of-the-envelope way of looking at things, Tony.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 7, 2006] Reference

And by my back-of-the-envelope math, that's about a 30 percent increase over the last offer.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2007] Reference

When everyone shows up, the convener does a headcount and some quick back-of-the-envelope calculations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iowa – LAX Terminal Three] Reference

Answer: some back-of-the-envelope calculations by a left-wing thinktank, the Center for American Progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Scares Seniors] Reference

I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation for our spending on gyms and fitness equipment over the past 27 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Does Paying for a Gym Make You a Dumbbell?] Reference

But the best information we have on the jobs/debt questions is no better than back-of-the-envelope projections.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Tierney and Guilbert Hentschke: Nobody Wins When We Regulate Out of Ignorance] Reference

What struck me was that major business decisions were made based on trust and back-of-the-envelope calculations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selling Potatoes By Phone] Reference

The average email has just one-sixtieth the footprint of a letter, according to a back-of-the-envelope comparison.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's the carbon footprint of ... email?] Reference

But even the most basic back-of-the-envelope type calculations suggest that the system is better endowed than many imagine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Environmental Governance~ Key Challenges to Effective Global Environmental Governance] Reference

The map was quick, back-of-the-envelope job by Tom White of the CAA, an air traffic control specialist who has since retired.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flight of KE007] Reference

With some back-of-the-envelope math, he calculates the current flow of money into the venture industry is depressing returns.    From Wordnik.com.  [The VC Industry Is Too Fat and the Exits Are Too Thin] Reference

Krugman is taking a possibly oversimplified analysis, doing a back-of-the-envelope calculation and telling us what he expects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Inequality and the China Trade] Reference

Now, a major caveat: This is largely a back-of-the-envelope calculation, because my tally is, of necessity, going to be flawed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservative groups have spent up to $75 million in undisclosed funds, dwarfing left] Reference

But in fact, so many details of Bush's plan have emerged that we can use some back-of-the-envelope math to see if they make sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [SOCIAL SECURITY: A DARING LEAP] Reference

He offers some back-of-the-envelope calculations that purport to show how much leverage the financial system needs to stay afloat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Greenspan’s ‘The Crisis’ and Modigliani and Miller] Reference

According to her back-of-the-envelope calculation, she might even be able to swing a 4 percent profit on her investments this year.    From Wordnik.com.  [After surprising third quarter, investors still watching their step] Reference

The disclosures are useful for investors doing back-of-the-envelope calculations, but they are otherwise limited by several factors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Bank on Bank Deals] Reference

Kevin's value-added is a back-of-the-envelope calculation comparing the wages of low-skilled workers one hundred years ago to today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Block that Free Lunch, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

It takes only a back-of-the-envelope calculation to see that it would be possible to do artificially what the mountain did naturally.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Fix a Climate Emergency] Reference

An unabashed liberal, he was a back-of-the-envelope Irish pol who trusted his instincts and didn't need polls to tell him what to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Hurrah For Tip O'neill, 1912-1994] Reference

If you want to get a back-of-the-envelope measure of your personal beta, ask yourself how the past few years have affected your paycheck.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Think Smarter About Risk] Reference

JJ while that seems like a good back-of-the-envelope math, unfortunately, not all videos are 3 minute videos and some are below a minute.    From Wordnik.com.  [Facebook Video No YouTube, But Growing Real Fast] Reference

Indeed, McCain's proposal is even worse on states, localities, and safety-net providers than my back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold Pollack: Dog Bites Man: The Obama Health Plan Beats McCain's for a Single Mom and Her Children] Reference

Simple back-of-the-envelope arithmetic will demonstrate the new inconceivability of our being the only intelligent beings in the universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across the Universe] Reference