rounding error

collocation in English

meaningsofroundinganderror

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rounding
noun[U]
uk
/ˈraʊn.dɪŋ/us
/ˈraʊn.dɪŋ/
the process of putting a number up or down to the nearest whole number or the nearest hundred, ...
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error
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈer.ər/us
/ˈer.ɚ/
a ...
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(Definition ofroundinganderrorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In addition, the wholeroundingerroranalysis reveals the following principal fact of 'philosophical' importance.
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But this has little effect, if any, to the value of the results obtained by the worst caseroundingerroranalysis.
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Itsroundingerroranalysis is perhaps complicated, lengthy and full of unpleasant technical details, bounds and formulas.
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Error estimates without appropriateroundingerroranalyses represent a highly hazardous pursuit.
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Sometimes it is also difficult to determine whether some computed approximations are additional copies caused byroundingerroreffects and the loss of orthogonality, or genuine close eigenvalues.
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Percentages are subject toroundingerror.
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That does not matter, it's just aroundingerror.
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It was not aroundingerror.
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When a sequence of calculations subject toroundingerroris made, errors may accumulate, sometimes dominating the calculation.
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Thus, for extremely small values of the step size, the truncation error will be small but the effect ofroundingerrormay be big.
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This paper commonly is considered as one of the first papers to studyroundingerrorand include discussion of what is called scientific computing nowadays.
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When ties are due toroundingerror, suggest another method to remove the effects.
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Since the number of steps is inversely proportional to the step size "h", the totalroundingerroris proportional to / "h".
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However, discrepancies, i.e. unintentional accounting errors can occur, for example due to data entry, or an adding or aroundingerror.
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The final compander achieved a very mild gain error recovery due to the natural truncationroundingerrorcaused by 12-bit arithmetic.
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If chosen too small, the subtraction will yield a largeroundingerror.
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The final compander achieved a very mild gain error recovery due to the natural truncationroundingerrorcaused by twelve bit arithmetic.
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Only the usual rounding errors should be taken into account.
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Political impacts are often reduced to aroundingerrorin conventional risk analysis; as a result, many actors affected by political risk do not adequately plan for it.
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