The missile knows where it is at all times.It knows this because it knows where it isn't.By subtracting where it is from where it isn't,Or where it isn't from where it is (whichever isGreater), it obtains a difference, or deviation.The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate correctiveCommands to drive the missile from a position where it is to aPosition where it isn't,And arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is.Consequently, the position where it is,Is now the position that it wasn't,And it follows that the position thatIt was, is now the position that it isn't.In the event that the position that it is in is not the position thatIt wasn't, the system has acquired a variation,The variation being the difference betweenWhere the missile is, and where it wasn't.If variation is considered to be aSignificant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA.However, the missile must also know where it was.The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows.Because a variation has modified some of the informationThe missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is.However, it is sure where it isn't,Within reason, and it knows where it was.It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't,Or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum ofWhere it shouldn't be, and where it was,It is able to obtain the deviationAnd its variation, which is called error.