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370 _Approximate Calculations_[Ch. 10<br />

#=s:60 cm and the angle of <strong>in</strong>cl<strong>in</strong>ation a so that the volume of the cyl<strong>in</strong>drical<br />

to 1%?<br />

segment is found to an accuracy up<br />

Solution. If AV, A/? and Aa are the limit<strong>in</strong>g absolute errors of the<br />

quantities V, R and a, then the limit<strong>in</strong>g relative error of the volume V that<br />

we are calculat<strong>in</strong>g is<br />

* 3A/? 2Act 1<br />

R "Nn^a 100"<br />

< - . Whence<br />

... 3A 1 . 2Aa 1<br />

We assume -^

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