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Maths Questions- absolute errors

Iamme said:
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But...5.37 is only exact if the person tells you it is exact. Not by simply looking at that number!

Suppose, in actuality, it is 5 .37490643982756475. This number would round off to 5.37 if the person chose to terminate the number at 1/100ths.
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Well, no, it would round to 5.37 or 5.38 if rounded to the second decimal place, depending on the rounding method used (rounding up vs. rounding down). You appear to be talking about truncation, not rounding.
 
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