miscalculation | | |
n. (act) | 1. miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning | a mistake in calculating. |
| ~ error, fault, mistake | a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" |
| ~ boomerang, backfire | a miscalculation that recoils on its maker. |
| ~ rounding, rounding error | (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" |
| ~ truncation error | (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from cutting off a numerical calculation before it is finished. |
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