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This is something I have read people do. Napkin mathematics they call it. Richard Hamming has a chapter in the book The Art of Doing Science and Engineering.

I want to learn it. This helps a lot in guessing what the results should be before we go on proving/deriving it. A hunch. A spidey sense.

I like it.



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