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The imprecision in his birthdate, which differs from the singularness in the date of his death, feels like an open wound where the dying is more certain than the living.
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A certain amount of confusion and imprecision is built into the use of the term.
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Torres’ inaccuracy in front of goal has even spawned countless memes on Spanish-speaking social media from frustrated fans and amused neutrals.
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This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.
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Just like the golden ratio for the earlier inequality, setting α equal to √2 prevents a better approximation result.
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This rule of thumb gives an approximation of how much money retirees can withdraw from their savings each year in order to give themselves good odds of not running out of money 30 years later.
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The result is an aesthetic that skillfully balances a variety of textures, including injecting Shou Sugi Ban custom treatments inspired by Japanese principles of wabi-sabi that typically employ elements of asymmetry, roughness, and simplicity.
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Features such as surface roughness and protruding fibers create more sites where particles can stick to the outer surface rather than passing through.
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So much of the film turns on such evocative inexactitude, on our ability to wonder (and wander) about the image.
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Bruno was fed up with berating his cooks for all their mistakes and inexactitudes, not to mention the grumbling.
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But many seemingly urbane texts also benefited from the intellectual and moral coarseness of their times.
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The term plant texture refers to the fineness or coarseness, roughness or smoothness, heaviness or lightness of a particular plant.
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“Impreciseness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impreciseness. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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