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Rounding — This article is about numerical rounding. For lip rounding in phonetics, see Labialisation. For other uses, see Rounding (disambiguation). Rounding a numerical value means replacing it by another value that is approximately equal but has a… … Wikipedia
digit bias — a bias arising from the tendency of people to round off numbers to end in 0 or 5; important in angler surveys where catches are recorded from interviews. Also called rounding bias … Dictionary of ichthyology
Swedish rounding — Swedish öresavrundning receipts (click to enlarge): Swedish rounding is a method by which the total monetary cost of a purchase is rounded to the closest unit of physical currency. The term is used mostly in Australia and New Zealand. Most other… … Wikipedia
Experimenter's bias — In experimental science, experimenter s bias is subjective bias towards a result expected by the human experimenter. David Sackett,[1] in a useful review of biases in clinical studies, states that biases can occur in any one of seven stages of… … Wikipedia
response error — errors in angler surveys caused by faulty memory, exaggeration, rounding bias, lying, misunderstood questions, misidentified species or incorrectly measured fish … Dictionary of ichthyology
Floating point — In computing, floating point describes a method of representing real numbers in a way that can support a wide range of values. Numbers are, in general, represented approximately to a fixed number of significant digits and scaled using an exponent … Wikipedia
Photoconductive atomic force microscopy — (pc AFM) is a scientific technique.. Multi layer photovoltaic cells have gained popularity since mid 1980s.[1] At the time, research was primarily focused on single layer photovoltaic (PV) devices between two electrodes, in which PV properties… … Wikipedia
Interval arithmetic — Interval arithmetic, also called interval mathematics , interval analysis , and interval computation , is a method in mathematics. It has been developed by mathematicians since the 1950s and 1960s as an approach to putting bounds on rounding… … Wikipedia
IEEE 754-1985 — The IEEE Standard for Binary Floating Point Arithmetic (IEEE 754) is the most widely used standard for floating point computation, and is followed by many CPU and FPU implementations. The standard defines formats for representing floating point… … Wikipedia
Double-precision floating-point format — In computing, double precision is a computer number format that occupies two adjacent storage locations in computer memory. A double precision number, sometimes simply called a double, may be defined to be an integer, fixed point, or floating… … Wikipedia
