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rounding error

NOUN
  1. (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals
    taxes are rounded off to the nearest dollar but the rounding error is surprisingly small
    the error in the calculation was attributable to rounding

How To Use rounding error In A Sentence

  • Also rounding errors can affect cases where extreme accuracy is required.
  • It would not even have constituted what accountants call a rounding error to make a saving of £2.7 billion in a total of that magnitude, yet Mr Brown could not bring himself to sack a few thousand from his overmanned client state, or trim spending elsewhere, like the private sector is being forced to do thanks to his mistakes. More anger over the 10p tax con
  • Another rounding error, another ‘journalistic rationale’ for the wiggles in the market chart.
  • However, problems can and do arise even with statistical calculations, one of the commonest being the build-up of rounding errors.
  • On the basis of the relation between truncation and rounding errors of difference approximation, the interval formula which can minimize the total error is founded.
  • Also rounding errors can affect cases where extreme accuracy is required.
  • Taxes are rounded off to the nearest dollar but the rounding error is surprisingly small.
  • taxes are rounded off to the nearest dollar but the rounding error is surprisingly small
  • Also rounding errors can affect cases where extreme accuracy is required.
  • But really, once you've spent thousands to get you and your family atop that mountain, lunch is a mere rounding error.
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