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rounding error

noun

  1. computing an error introduced into a computation by the need to perform rounding
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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That's 36 miles, a rounding error for China's construction engineers.

Are they really so divorced from reality that the difference between 1.5 percent and 47 percent is just a rounding error?

My salary, and probably yours, is a rounding error on his tax return.

To the parent corporations and their mega movie studios, the core comic business is practically a rounding error.

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