Category:Definitions/Truncation Errors

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A truncation error is an error associated with limitations in the construction of approximations.

This may arise by:

the use of an approximation rule

terminating an iterative method before it has converged

approximating a derivative by a difference

taking a finite number of terms of a power series expansion, for example a Taylor series

and so on.

It can also arise through truncation of a number.