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Fudge factor is a margin over and above the required resources such as time, capital, human capital, or cost required for a certain project. Sometimes, fudge factors may be factors other than resources, e.g. a margin of error above the minimum error on a measurement.
A fudge factor is also a number used in an equation to make it match current theories. This is usually derided as a false number, but one famous case that later turned out to be correct is the Planck constant[citation needed]. Additionally, the cosmological constant has gone back and forth between being a real value and a fudge factor.
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