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    20 days ago

    Now these errors are for the most part irrelevant in most applications, because food for example is still very edible and nutritious even if it is not absolutely 100% as good as the original, same goes for most spare ship parts and such.

    Star Trek’s replicators also modify the food, which may matter more than small-scale errors. They specifically create a copy of the food that is deliberately nutritionally tailored for your specific dietary needs, and to remove poisonous substances within it.

    Those errors tend to be more of a problem for big complex molecules like DNA, or sophisticated things like computer chips.