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An international steel company manufactures steel rods in different lengths, typically measured in centimeters. For their U.S. customers, they display the measurements in inches. When programming the conversion, someone made a mistake in the formula, so all inch values were off by a factor of 10. What data integrity problem does this scenario describe?
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Manipulation.
The inch values were incorrectly changed by the conversion code (a systematic modification/error), so the data were improperly altered rather than merely copied, transferred, or mis-gathered.
The inch values were incorrectly changed by the conversion code (a systematic modification/error), so the data were improperly altered rather than merely copied, transferred, or mis-gathered.
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