Percent Error Calculator
Computes the percent error of a measurement against an accepted value, or the percent difference between two measurements.
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Notes
- Percent error is |measured − true| / |true| × 100; it needs a known accepted value.
- Percent difference compares two measurements with no "correct" one, dividing by their average.
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