rounding error
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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To Wall Street, and perhaps the company itself, Nvidia’s gaming business is increasingly a rounding error as it rebrands itself as an end-to-end AI ecosystem.
From MarketWatch ● May 23, 2026
From a macro point of view, that’s not even a rounding error.
From Slate ● May 11, 2026
The division that was once a rounding error is the reason that BlackBerry is suddenly making money again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
For big public companies, the cost of reporting is a rounding error compared to their costs of operations.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
I told her about Davis calling it a rounding error, but I still worried that it might be dirty money or that I might be exploiting Davis or...but she shushed me.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
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