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Which of the following describes the 'curse of dimensionality' as it relates to finite difference methods for pricing derivatives?

  1. Numerical stability is lost whenever the time step chosen is too small.
  2. The error of the resulting price estimate shrinks only as 1/sqrt(M), slowly.
  3. The finite difference method is fundamentally unable to price early-exercise features.
  4. Computational cost grows exponentially with the number of underlying factors.

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