This mstake made a differnece of about two inches and a half in the shot - that is to say in the position of the peg nearest the tree;...of course the error, however trivial in the beginning, increased as we proceeded with the line....:

Something that is trivial is definitely NOT
a. accurate
b. small
c. important
d. petty

Answer - accurate??

No, sorry.

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