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I can not understand very well the meaning of "になるほど" in this sentence, from a
Japanese Dragon Ball Guide Book.

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> (合体によるパワーアップは、)２人の戦闘力の合計ではなく、掛け算 **になるほど** の凄まじさ！

Is it maybe something similar to the construction "The more... the more..."?
Or does it have relations with "I see" なるほど?

And, in your opinion, can this translation be correct?

"The Power-Up of the fusion (context: by means of
[Potara](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%9E%8D%E5%90%88_\(%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9C%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB\))
earring), it's something impressive closer/more similar to multiplication
rather than a sum of the power forces of the two warriors."
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になるほど in this sentence
`XほどY` (or `XくらいY`) in this context means "Y to the point where X" or "so Y
that X". The "the more ～, the more ～" construction is not relevant. [This
なるほど](http://jisho.org/word/%E6%88%90%E7%A8%8B) is not relevant, either. You
have to add の if the following modified word is a noun. 凄まじい is an adjective,
and 凄まじさ is its nominalized form ("-ness").

  * 目で見えないほど小さい so small that it's invisible; too small to see
  * 驚くほどの値段 the price so expensive/inexpensive that it's surprising; surprising price
  * 問題になるほどの大きさ the size big enough to be problematic

So かけ算になるほどの凄まじさ is "intensiveness to the point where it becomes a
multiplication" or "the tremendous power going up in a multiplicative manner
(rather than the usual additive manner)". The sentence says the fused power
increases in a way the fusion of 100 and 100 becomes 10000 rather than 200,
for example.
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