| 41. | Vose points out that floating-point rounding errors may cause the guarantee referred to in step 1 to be violated.
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| 42. | And Phoenix, with about $ 57 million in sales, is just a rounding error in PacTel's $ 9billion income.
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| 43. | Moreover, Viswanath computed the numerical value above using floating point arithmetics validated by an analysis of the rounding error.
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| 44. | "One million dollars is a rounding error to those kinds of organizations, " said Gorelick, the former marketing chief.
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| 45. | "That's a rounding error, " said Joe Phillippi, an analyst with Lehman Brothers, referring to the tiny expected profit.
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| 46. | "We are a rounding error in the NIH budget, " says Marlene Heffner, the FDA official overseeing the office.
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| 47. | No, because then I would be able to add them up to 100 % ( allowing for rounding errors ).
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| 48. | Namely, in languages which implement IEEE 754, some very simple arithmetic operations can have unexpected results due to rounding errors.
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| 49. | But the cold truth is that Macintosh sales are little more than a rounding error in the vast Windows empire.
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| 50. | For Hutchison, a sprawling empire that spans container ports, drugstores and phone companies, the stake is barely a rounding error.
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