The closest approximation to this that you may have heard about was when a holographic version of the late Tupac Shakur performed at Coachella in 2012.

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Conveniently, this function approximation process is what we need to solve a PDE.

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In doing so, he devised perhaps the most famous approximation algorithm in theoretical computer science — one that usually forms the first example in textbooks and courses.

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Because these fractions are small, this approximation works.

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Because we cannot do that for obvious ethical reasons, everything else is an approximation.

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History can never be other than an approximation to the truth, even when it relates to the events and characters of its own age.

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