Matteo Cantiello edited Updating Drake Eq.tex  about 10 years ago

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So the product of the first 3 terms is now well established and is of order 5.   $N \begin{equation}  N  =\underbrace{\overbrace{R}^{\approx10} \times \overbrace{f_p}^{\approx 1} \times \overbrace{n_e}^{\approx 0.2}}_{\sim 5} \times \underbrace{f_l \times f_i \times f_c \times L}_{?}$ \end{equation}\label{Drake}  We can then simplify the Drake equation and re-write it in its "2014 form" as: