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bombcar
61 days ago
Digital precision quickly outstrips accuracy in any number of things - eg digital calipers that read down to the ten thousands of an inch on a device that isn’t accurate to a thousandth.
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ua709
60 days ago
Totally agree but for calculations the rules can be a bit different because error can accumulate and computers add lots of numbers really quickly.
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