Matteo Cantiello edited Box.tex  about 10 years ago

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So the product of the first 3 terms is now well established and is, using a conservtive approximation, of order 1. So we can simplify the Drake equation and re-write it as:  $N \approx \underbrace{f_l f_l  \times f_i \times f_c \times L}_{?}$ L$