(historical) The time period between 1611 and 1721 when the Swedish Empire thrived in Europe.

(mathematics) The difference between the result of a calculation using exact arithmetic and finite-precision, rounded arithmetic. / (by extension) A negligible fraction of something.

Synonym of Common Era

Alternative form of Common Era

plural of error-proneness

The quality of being error-prone.

(computer science) An error in the syntax of a sequence of characters or tokens that is intended to be written in a particular programming language.

(numerical analysis) The difference between the result produced by a given algorithm using exact arithmetic and the result produced by the same algorithm using finite-precision, rounded arithmetic.

(statistics) The difference between a measured value of a quantity and its true value.

(grammar, linguistics) An error in the conventionally accepted orthography of a word.