For example, when an absolute error in a temperature measurement given in Celsius is 1° and the true value is 2°C, the relative error is 0.5 and the percent error is 50%.
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For this same case, when the temperature is given in Kelvin, the same 1° absolute error with the same true value of 275.15° K gives a relative error of 3.63e-3 and a percent error of only 0.363%.
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