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Difference between precision and accuracy

What is the difference between precision and accuracy? Doesn't they imply to the same meaning?
  

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[nq:1]What is the difference between precision and accuracy? [/nq] No. Precision is the smallest amount, or resolution, to which you can measure, and how repeatable that measurement is.

  • [nq:1]What is the difference between precision and accuracy?
  • [/nq] No.
  • Precision is the smallest amount, or resolution, to which you can measure, and how repeatable that measurement is.
  • If you have a rule marked in centimetres, then your measurement will be precise to the nearest centimetre (subject to rounding up or down).
  • If you have a rule marked in millimetres, your measurement will be more precise.
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[nq:1]What is the difference between precision and accuracy? Doesn't they imply to the same meaning?[/nq]
No.
Precision is the smallest amount, or resolution, to which you can measure, and how repeatable that measurement is. If you have a rule marked in centimetres, then your measurement will be precise to the nearest centimetre (subject to rounding up or down). If you have a rule marked i

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