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Specialty Expressions: EPSILON SQUARED

ExpressionsDomainDefinition
Epsilon squaredComputingEpsilon squared 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. (1997-09-05). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing..
Epsilon squaredComputingEpsilon squared 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. Source: Jargon File..

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