By Islam BarakaDefinitions
In plain terms
Computers and vendors can represent decimal values differently, so exact equality may fail even when the difference is immaterial for one use case.
Technical
A tolerance policy states absolute and/or relative form, units, scale, inclusive boundary, rounding order, missing and non-finite behavior, and business justification.
Scope
Tolerance is not a license to hide unexplained errors and is never universal across fields.
Examples
- A governed dataset records numerical tolerance explicitly and preserves the source context needed to interpret it.
Common misconceptions
- Numerical Tolerance does not have one universal meaning or policy without its declared source, scope, and data contract.
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Evidence and governance
- Fintech Builder Glossary Definition Contract The Fintech Builder · internal governed contract
Supports: preferred label, short definition, technical definition
Limits: Defines governed platform behavior rather than claiming these policies are universally prescribed by external McClellan methodology.
- Reviewed by
- Islam Baraka
- Last reviewed
- 2026-07-26
- Next review
- 2027-07-26
- Record status
- published