Under extreme circumstances, the difference between the two can change everything.
The difference in their masses changes the "numbers" but does not change the end result.
A difference of less than two votes in each town would have changed the result of the election.
The difference in physical features will not change the human quality.
There is no evidence to show whether such differences have changed over the years.
But those differences have not fundamentally changed scientists' view of evolution or common descent.
Moreover, the small difference in the final data did not change the article's conclusions.
For example, we may judge them as different only if the difference changes the amino acid sequence of a protein.
"A few differences in Carmichael's site could have changed the court's calculus," he wrote.
After his father's death, the difference changed to a label of five points per pale ermine and France.