initial guess
- firstPosition number one
- estimateInformed guess at quantity
- approximationNear but inexact value
- startingInitiating an action
- hypothesisTestable proposed explanation
ballpark · rough · assumption · baseline · stab · hunch · tentative · preliminary · conjecture · trial · seed · kickoff · opening · educated · speculation · intuition · bootstrap · iteration
- Hartree-Fock
- root findingbracketing, quadratic formula