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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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I recently read an article online that used the phrase "estimate approximate values". This piqued my curiosity as I believe the use of approximate or approximately to be an unnecessary addition to estimates, as an estimate already assumes an approximate calculation by definition. As I suspected a Google search for "estimate approximately" shows quite a few examples of this being used in many different forms of writing from technical papers to general gabby blogs. Now, this begs the question, is "estimate approximate" redundant?
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Anonymous I recently read an article online that used the phrase " estimate approximate values ". This piqued my curiosity as I believe the use of approximate or approximately to be an unnecessary addition to estimates, as an estimate already assumes an approximate calculation by definition. As I suspected a Google search for "estimate approximately" shows quite a few examples of this being used in many different forms of writing from technical papers to general gabby blogs.
- Anonymous I recently read an article online that used the phrase " estimate approximate values ".
- This piqued my curiosity as I believe the use of approximate or approximately to be an unnecessary addition to estimates, as an estimate already assumes an approximate calculation by definition.
- As I suspected a Google search for "estimate approximately" shows quite a few examples of this being used in many different forms of writing from technical papers to general gabby blogs.
- Now, this begs the question, is "estimate approximate" redundant?
- Yes.
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AnonymousI recently read an article online that used the phrase "estimate approximate values". This piqued my curiosity as I believe the use of approximate or approximately to be an unnecessary addition to estimates, as an estimate already assumes an approximate calculation by definition. As I suspected a Google search for "estimate approximately" shows quite a f
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