Which navigational inaccuracy increases when a user fails to correct a sextant's side error completely?

💡 Explanation

When a sextant exhibits uncorrected side error, each altitude measurement is inaccurate, causing constant bias in calculations; this is an additive error that accumulates across further measurements, impacting its accuracy. Therefore cumulative errors results rather than purely lunar, timekeeping, or latitude tracking inaccuracies, which depend on separate failures.

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