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"A Helpful Estimate Must Be Accurate"

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A helpful estimate need not be accurate — it must be optimistic; accuracy buys speed while optimism protects the answer.

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The all-zeros estimate is maximally inaccurate yet perfectly admissible — and still guaranteed optimal, at a plodding pace.

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Truth-plus-ten-percent is impressively accurate, inadmissible, and can bury the best route unexamined.

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