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accuracy refers to how close a measurement is to the true or actual value. precision is a measure of the exactness of a measurement. so if playing darts high precision is like reproduicibility. you can get them all in the same spot. high accuracy would be scattered around the bullseye. if both then it would be close together near the bullseye.

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