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precision and accuracy are defined terms in science.

Accuracy is the closeness of a given result to the true value of a measurement. Precision of a result is represented by the scatter of a number of measurements.

True value is the average of a number of careful measurements by different experimenters, using different measuring systems. (consider the height of a mountain for example.)

Resolution is merely the number of digits in the answer, and of which several may be meaningless.

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