Machine epsilon
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Machine epsilon is the upper bound on the error caused by rounding in floating-point arithmetic. In computer science, this value characterizes numerical analysis performed through computer arithmetic. It is denoted by the Greek letter epsilon ϵ \epsilon or a bold Roman letter u.
See also
- Rounding error (Round-off error)
- Machine epsilon
- python:math - described as rounding error