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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals;
- Example: "the error in the calculation was attributable to rounding"
- Example: "taxes are rounded off to the nearest dollar but the rounding error is surprisingly small"
[syn: rounding, rounding error]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

rounding error
    n 1: (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding
         off numbers to a convenient number of decimals; "the error
         in the calculation was attributable to rounding"; "taxes
         are rounded off to the nearest dollar but the rounding
         error is surprisingly small" [syn: rounding, rounding
         error]