Singh says that this could help speed up the design process by making it possible to have a high-precision part built in weeks rather than months.

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Today, thanks to radar and interplanetary spacecraft, the astronomical unit is known with a precision of one part in 50 billion.

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These exhibits, chosen not with scholarly precision but for the most part by ordinary Scots who responded to museum adverts seeking items which have significantly affected modern Scottish life, speak not of parochial concerns but of a people acknowledging their small place in a big world.

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Judicial opinions are written with great precision and care because they matter, and each strand of argument becomes a part of the grit and texture of American law.

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