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epsilon squared n.

A quantity even smaller than epsilon, as small in comparison to epsilon as

epsilon is to something normal; completely negligible. If you buy

a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the

thousand-dollar terminal to go with it is epsilon, and the cost of the ten-dollar cable

to connect them is epsilon squared. Compare lost in the underflow,

lost in the

noise.

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