I have worked with a lot of technical specs, some can be very specific about these kind of details.
When doing QC on a job, your goal is to hit target not just be within spec, questions should have been asked early as to why they were drifting off target, this is so you don’t get to the edge of your allowable range.
That still means the spec is wrong, clearly.
That depends on what the spec says specifically.
I have worked with a lot of technical specs, some can be very specific about these kind of details.
When doing QC on a job, your goal is to hit target not just be within spec, questions should have been asked early as to why they were drifting off target, this is so you don’t get to the edge of your allowable range.
If the spec can be followed exactly and yield a bad result, the spec is fundamentally incorrect. (Even if that’s the usual way of doing things.)