If you had to choose between accuracy vs precision, which would to take? Well, if your goal is simply to hit what you’re currently shooting at, you’d take accuracy over precision. Fortunately, it ...

Define precision and accuracy. What is considered leading edge? Kerk Motion: Precision and accuracy are the exactness with which something is done in the context of a specified requirement. The ...

JACQUES-BÉNIGNE BOSSUET, the 17th century French bishop and pulpit orator, once said “Every error is truth abused.” He was referring to man’s foibles, of ...

When David Shiga wrote that the Absolute Color Calibration Experiment for Standard Stars will have “a precision of 1 per cent or better” and that this is “twice the accuracy of current measurements” ...

Do you ever have to ensure that an exact amount of time passes between two tasks in your microcontroller code? Do you know what’s the difference between precision and accuracy? Today, [Jim Mack] tells ...

It’s even become the norm among high-minded watch technicians. When I bring these terms up with them, they dismiss my concerns as those of an obsessive wordsmith. I feel like a scowling, Dickensian ...