Doing more than is necessary is as bad as doing less.
To be accurate, when accuracy counts. To be exact. He was to work for seven hours, not to go beyond (work overtime) or fall short (leave early).
It means to be succinct. It's about balance. Think about the Conversational Maxims. It's about being precise.
to not quite make it
In short, no.
Outliers.
I believe outliers is the best answer to this question. The previous answer was average, which is the mean.
outliers
They do happen, particularly with very skewed distributions.
for a sum to fall short
Usually they would be observations with very low probabilities of occurrence.
Outliers
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