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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>epsilon squared</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="previous" href="epsilon.html" title="epsilon"/><link rel="next" href="era.html" title="era"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">epsilon squared</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="epsilon.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">E</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="era.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="epsilon-squared"/><dt xmlns="" id="epsilon-squared"><b>epsilon squared</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A quantity even smaller than <a href="epsilon.html"><i class="glossterm">epsilon</i></a>, as
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small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal;
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completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars,
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the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go with it is
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<a href="epsilon.html"><i class="glossterm">epsilon</i></a>, and the cost of the ten-dollar cable to
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connect them is epsilon squared. Compare
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<a href="../L/lost-in-the-underflow.html"><i class="glossterm">lost in the underflow</i></a>, <a href="../L/lost-in-the-noise.html"><i class="glossterm">lost in the noise</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="epsilon.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="era.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">epsilon </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> era</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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