Do you have a specific example in mind?
That particular example is just true, isn’t it? (Arithmetic isn’t my strong suit)
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It'll actually end up being an overestimate. 20 * 20 * 20 ~ 10000 not 100000.
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Oh, I was thinking about multiplying just two numbers. I guess I don’t follow your question about shadows and so on. If you’re talking about products of any number of numbers, this rule is useless. Maybe we can think of a better example of a roughly-right heuristic.
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