GM. Read about lumping in The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering.

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To master complexity...

- Organise it
    Divide and conquer
    Abstraction
- Discard it without losing information
    Symmetry and conservation
    Proportional reasoning
    Dimensional analysis
- Discard whilst losing information
    Lumping
    Probabilistic reasoning
    Easy cases
    Spring models