counting error
Wrong number recorded
A counting error is a mistake in determining the number of items in a set—whether from miscounting, skipping an item, or counting one twice.
The term appears in contexts ranging from inventory management to election recounts: A counting error led to the discrepancy in the vote totals.
In statistics and measurement, counting errors refer to inherent uncertainties when detecting discrete events, as in radiation monitoring.
- miscalculationError in estimation
- tallyRecorded count
- discrepancyDifference between expected and actual
- miscountError in enumeration
- off-by-oneIndex boundary mistake
arithmetic · number crunching · ledger · balance sheet · digit · oversight · blunder · tabulation · sum · audit · inventory · census · ballot · checksum · rounding · decimal · abacus · spreadsheet
- calculation errorsmiscalculation, miscount, miscounting, wrong answer, division by zero