If you believe your error was based on a reasonable position or cause, explain the situation and ask the penalty not be asserted.
Anybody can make a mistake, but it's a bad sign when one of your errors is your title.
So you know that your measurement is accurate to within + or - 1 mm; your absolute error is 1 mm.
Your absolute error is 20 - 18 = 2 feet (60.96 centimeters).
For example, if your zero error is +0.9mm, and you take a measurement that reads 5.52mm, the actual value is 5.52 - 0.9 = 4.62mm.
"Needless to say, your margin for error is extremely limited," Goodell said in a letter to Vick.
Making the pitches isn't more difficult, but your room for error is very little, if any".
"The key point," he said, "is that in a small state your margin for error is smaller".
"If you're facing a top dude, you know your room for error isn't very good.
With his technique, he hits the ball very flat and it goes through the court quickly but your margin for error is so much smaller.
