Question: how to calculate percentage error in equipment?
Answer: Subtract one value from the other: 2.68 - 2.70 = -0.02. Depending on what you need, you may discard any negative sign (take the absolute value): 0.02. ...  Divide the error by the true value:0.02/2.70 = 0.0074074. Multiply this value by 100% to obtain the percent error: