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  2. Round-off error - Wikipedia

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    There are two common rounding rules, round-by-chop and round-to-nearest. The IEEE standard uses round-to-nearest. Round-by-chop: The base-expansion of is truncated after the ()-th digit. This rounding rule is biased because it always moves the result toward zero.

  3. Numeric precision in Microsoft Excel - Wikipedia

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    In the second line, the number one is added to the fraction, and again Excel displays only 15 figures. In the third line, one is subtracted from the sum using Excel. Because the sum has only eleven 1s after the decimal, the true difference when ‘1’ is subtracted is three 0s followed by a string of eleven 1s.

  4. Machine epsilon - Wikipedia

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    This alternative definition is significantly more widespread: machine epsilon is the difference between 1 and the next larger floating point number.This definition is used in language constants in Ada, C, C++, Fortran, MATLAB, Mathematica, Octave, Pascal, Python and Rust etc., and defined in textbooks like «Numerical Recipes» by Press et al.

  5. Floating-point error mitigation - Wikipedia

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    Variable length arithmetic represents numbers as a string of digits of a variable's length limited only by the memory available. Variable-length arithmetic operations are considerably slower than fixed-length format floating-point instructions.

  6. Burst error-correcting code - Wikipedia

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    Proof. We need to prove that if you add a burst of length to a codeword (i.e. to a polynomial that is divisible by ()), then the result is not going to be a codeword (i.e. the corresponding polynomial is not divisible by ()).

  7. Johnny Depp's Lawyers Were 'Concerned' He 'Might Lose His ...

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    At one point, Chew explains why the legal team thought Depp making jokes on the stand while testifying was helpful, and that they worried the actor might have an outburst during his cross-examination.

  8. Holiday sleep trouble? 5 secrets of a better snooze

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    Getting a good night's sleep can be a little more challenging amid the hype of the holidays. With changes in routine, diet and potentially time zones, quality sleep could be difficult to come by ...

  9. ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit: Indiana 'was not a team that should ...

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    The second-guessing of Indiana’s playoff appearance has already begun. The No. 10 Hoosiers lost 27-17 at No. 7 Notre Dame in the first round of the College Football Playoff on Friday night. The ...