ERROR ANALYSIS: 4. Chopping Off versus Rounding Off

e.g., the real number

has the following six-digit representations :

flchop(p) = 0.314285*101

flround(p) = 0.314286*101.

For common purposes we would probably write the chopping and rounding as 3.14285 and 3.14286, respectively.

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