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Numbers don't add up. Is GA worthless?

I've had this issue/problem ever since I started Google Analytics. Now, I'm not a smart man, but shouldn't my 7-day active users be around 112k instead of 100k? (16,000 x 7 = 112,000).

And shouldn't my 30-day active users be around 480,000k? (16,000 x 30 = 480,000). Are all analytic platforms this imprecise? Am I missing something? I'm also seeing this inaccuracy with my Android and web property too. Thanks

on December 25, 2021
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    I'm pretty sure the active users are deduped when aggregated across multiple days. So, if the same exact set of 100K users was present on your site every day for the week, then the active users for the week would be 100K as well.