• kbal@fedia.io
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    1 month ago

    Isn’t this basically just the old trick of estimating (x * y) as (x + y - 1) when x and y are somewhat close to 1?

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        1 month ago

        Seems pretty good for 1.1 x .9, and for .9 x .8

        I guess values must be pretty close