Rounding Error
Further information: Floating pointPrecision is often the source of rounding errors in computation. The number of bits used to store a number will often cause some loss of accuracy. An example would be to store sin(0.1) in IEEE single precision floating point standard. The error is then often magnified as subsequent computations are made to the data (it can also be reduced).
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