rounding error

noun

1. computing an error introduced into a computation by the need to perform rounding

Example Sentences

That's 36 miles, a rounding error for China's construction engineers.

From The Daily Beast

Are they really so divorced from reality that the difference between 1.5 percent and 47 percent is just a rounding error?

From The Daily Beast

My salary, and probably yours, is a rounding error on his tax return.

From The Daily Beast

To the parent corporations and their mega movie studios, the core comic business is practically a rounding error.

From The Daily Beast