Even a tiny discrepancy between the clocks at Cern and Gran Sasso could be at the root of the faster-than-light results seen in September.
But this tiny discrepancy in the sun's actual periodicity resulted in a gain of about three days every four centuries under the Julian calendar as compared with the observed equinoxes and solstices.
Despite the tiny discrepancy in mass between the uranium atom and its products, the amount of energy released is big and the reason why is obvious when you look at the c² term in the equation – the speed of light is a huge number by itself and its square is therefore enormous.
A federal jury in Manhattan in December found the programmer, Sergey Aleynikov, guilty of stealing proprietary code that places trades using computer algorithms that spot tiny discrepancies in stock prices.
Mr. Aleynikov's arrest in 2009 drew attention to a business that had been little known outside Wall Street - high-frequency trading, which uses complex computer algorithms to make lightning-fast trades to exploit tiny discrepancies in price.
For the new paper, researchers painstakingly mapped features such as craters and ridges on Enceladus and looked for tiny discrepancies in their position at different points in time, to see whether the moon had spun a little faster or slower than expected at various moments in its orbit around Saturn.
And any dependence of h on location would translate as a tiny timing discrepancy between different GPS clocks.
In 2007 Spivey contracted with a New York hedge fund to devise a low-latency arbitrage strategy, wherein the fund would search out tiny discrepancies between futures contracts in Chicago and their underlying equities in New York.
Nick Leeson, the trader who ran up £860m ($1.4 billion) of dealing losses at Barings, a British merchant bank, in 1995, was supposed to be making money in Singapore by exploiting tiny discrepancies between the prices of two futures contracts.
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