"In theory there is no difference between practice in theory, but in practice there is"
Basically, you will have melt losses, it's part of the fundamental process yield
what you get / what you actually had.
Say someone sent me 100 fine ounces contained in 14 K scrap. While I might get 99.995 ounces troy from it, some will still be lost...be it suspended fines in nitric from part, or gold residuals that won't wash off silver chloride that ultimately report in my silver cell, or volatilization of the gold during the melt that collects on the walls of the crucible, and on the list goes.
Loss mechanisms. Lot of my job as a consultant in this stuff is helping people understand and mitigate them.
Look at all the people doing stone removals with ammonia or sodium thiosulfate to remove AgCl...they're throwing some of the baby (gold, either suspended or dissolved) out with the bath water (solublilzed silver chloride complex).
and upcyclist...it's a degree of precision, how many zero's you have on the balance (readability really), not necessarily accuracy. You may have very precise measurements with horrible accuracy and very accurate measurements with horrible precision. In fact, they're probably related in some fashion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision