Define precision and accuracy. What is considered leading edge? Kerk Motion: Precision and accuracy are the exactness with which something is done in the context of a specified requirement. The ...

Do you ever have to ensure that an exact amount of time passes between two tasks in your microcontroller code? Do you know what’s the difference between precision and accuracy? Today, [Jim Mack] tells ...

When David Shiga wrote that the Absolute Color Calibration Experiment for Standard Stars will have “a precision of 1 per cent or better” and that this is “twice the accuracy of current measurements” ...

Figure 1 shows that individual measurement values hover around a mean value and the difference between the mean value and true value is the systematic error of ...

It’s even become the norm among high-minded watch technicians. When I bring these terms up with them, they dismiss my concerns as those of an obsessive wordsmith. I feel like a scowling, Dickensian ...

Students distinguish between accuracy and precision of measurements. Accuracy, Precision, and Significant Digits: Students distinguish between accuracy and precision of measurements and make ...

An unfortunate reality of trying to represent continuous real numbers in a fixed space (e.g. with a limited number of bits) is that this comes with an inevitable loss of both precision and accuracy.