The representation has a limited precision.

Analyzing the effect of limited precision is a well-studied problem.

However, the biological neurons also suffer from randomness and limited precision, for example due to background noise.

Due to the limited precision with which floating point numbers are stored in computers, the exact expression is in practice not accurate for large distances.

(The small differences in the results are only caused by the used limited precision of the coefficients).

Calculations using the slide rule are of limited precision because of their analog inputs and outputs.

This error does not include the rounding error due to numbers being represented and calculations being performed in limited precision.

Rounding/truncation errors due to the limited precision of the registers.

Some can only operate on whole numbers (integers) whilst others use floating point to represent real numbers, albeit with limited precision.

The limited precision can make a significant difference as to how navigation devices interpret the incident, possibly leading to a poor route choice.