  The Volume conjecture claims that the hyperbolic Volume of a knot is
determined by the colored Jones polynomial.
  The purpose of this article is to show a Volume-ish theorem for alternating
knots in terms of the Jones polynomial, rather than the colored Jones
polynomial: The ratio of the Volume and certain sums of coefficients of the
Jones polynomial is bounded from above and from below by constants.
  Furthermore, we give experimental data on the relation of the growths of the
hyperbolic volume and the coefficients of the Jones polynomial, both for
alternating and non-alternating knots.
