of pieces of whatever, whether it's a carburetor or a piece for a refrigerator or a television or an iPhone, that are exactly the same, are crucially, and the word is interchangeable, the making of interchangeable parts, such that if a part fails, you just get another one out of the box and it fits perfectly. So those things, tolerance, interchangeable parts, accuracy and precision, lie at the center of this book. The book is about a great deal more than that, but those four concepts are important to know about. Is it fair to say the way I think about it also is that in order to achieve precision, you need to have ... I mean, it's very much something where you've got tools that allow you to be precise. The accuracy is more a human methodological approach. It's about, first of all, you could have very precise tools, but be highly inaccurate, because you don't have the right theory and how to approach it, say ... Well, I mean, a good example is maybe this will be later on in the (8/57)
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