why aren’t all mirrors optically correct?

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why aren’t all mirrors optically correct?

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It’s hard to make a perfectly flat mirror. It would be way too expensive for the common consumer. And that amount of accuracy just isn’t needed by the public. The mirrors used by observatory telescopes are accurate within fractions of millimeters.

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