[USMA:8730] RE: The Prefix Compendium

[Bill Potts]

Norman Welling wrote:
> To do so the accuracy level ...

That should be "degree of precision."

My height happens to be 183 cm. That is accurate and also precise enough
for such a measure.

If I were to say that my height was 185.377 cm, that would be very precise
(excessively so), but it wouldn't be accurate.

Bill Potts, CMS
Sam Jose, CA
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