EPSILON SQUARED


Meaning of EPSILON SQUARED in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ n. ]

A quantity even smaller than epsilon , as small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal; completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go with it is epsilon , and the cost of the ten-dollar cable to connect them is epsilon squared. Compare lost in the underflow , lost in the noise .

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