But wait — perhaps the problem allows approximate? Or we made error.

Mon, 04 May 2026 16:50:36 +0000

But Wait — Perhaps the Problem Lets Approximate: When Exact Answers Fall Short In a world increasingly driven by precision, accuracy, and algorithmic certainty, we often expect problems to have exact solutions. But what happens when strict precision comes at the cost of practicality? Sometimes, embracing approximation isn’t just acceptable—it’s necessary. ### Why Precision Isn’t Always Possible Even in science, engineering, data analysis, and software development, problems rarely yield perfectly clean answers. Complex systems, inherent variability, incomplete data, or computational limits mean that absolute precision is often unattainable—or worse, computationally impractical.