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Any inequality A ≤ B can be restated, at least in principle, as an equality \(A = B - E\) where E ≥ 0 is an error term. Of course, if A ≤ B is complicated, then the error term probably cannot be known exactly. But quite often in calculus, something can be said about the error term. When this is the case, interesting and useful things usually follow.

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

—Sigmund Freud

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Mercer, P.R. (2014). Error Terms. In: More Calculus of a Single Variable. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1926-0_14

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