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n. - A mistake in calculating.

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  • The audience comes to see that Lisa has a distorted view of the events she narrates, most clearly in her misestimation of the character of Brand.
  • It is almost never caused by misestimation of the cost of the planned, known work, but rather surprises that result in a significant amount of unplanned, unexpected work...
  • Antitrust suits, the misestimation of the web's growth, losing the search battle, the migration from desktop to cloud … The obstacles for Microsoft continue to add-up.
  • By the way: This ease was one of the reasons why we were hit so hard by the epic misestimation about the importance of x86 at the start of this decade: It was easy to...
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