rounding error

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rounding error

a large amount of money that is relatively small in comparison to a much larger sum. To a large company like Smith & Co., a few thousand dollars is just a rounding error. It's not a lot at all.

See also: error, round

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Even the dog of the banking sector Citigroup, seems to have shed a few fleas for the quarter and eked out a small profit of $101 million, (barely the rounding error on the other banks results, but a profit nonetheless. Quest Means Business: Reason to celebrate? by Daily News Egypt (Egypt) Two insights were thus gained: one, that a number can be expressed in many ways, not simply as a unique numeral, and that often this could be more mathematically useful than the unique solution; and, two, that rounding errors accumulated rapidly if one simply tried to carry out each intermediate calculation, and rounded these to a convenient number of decimal places. Editorial by Falle, Judith / Australian Mathematics Teacher From this perspective, the 100,000-year history of the human species is a minor rounding error. In search of universal truth by Brendan Buhler / Las Vegas Sun			rough rough and ready rough edges rough idea rough in rough it rough justice rough out rough stuff rough trade rough up rough-and-ready rough-and-tumble round round and round round down round off round off to round out round the bend round the clock round the twist round up round-trip ticket roundabout rounding error rouse rouse from rouse out of rouse to roust out of rout out of some place route route around route to rove row row out to royal rub rub against rub at rub away rub down rub elbows rub elbows with rub in rub into rub it in rub nose in it rub off			rounder rounder rounder rounders rounders roundest roundest roundest roundest roundest Roundeval Roundfish Roundhead Roundhead Roundhead Roundhead Association Roundhead vs Goose 8 Ball Classic roundheaded roundheaded Roundheads Roundheads roundhouse roundhouse Roundhouses Roundhouses rounding rounding rounding rounding rounding rounding error Rounding function Rounding function Rounding functions Rounding functions Rounding Linear Programming Relaxation Rounding numbers Rounding numbers rounding off rounding off rounding off rounding off rounding on rounding on rounding on rounding on rounding out rounding out rounding out rounding out Rounding Type Rounding up Rounding up Rounding up Rounding up roundish roundish roundish roundish roundishness Roundleaf Plantain

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