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round-off error

noun

Definitions

  1. The difference between the result produced by a given algorithm using exact arithmetic…

    The difference between the result produced by a given algorithm using exact arithmetic and the result produced by the same algorithm using finite-precision, rounded arithmetic.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for round-off error. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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