The actual demand for castings in a factory is 500 units and 635 units for the months of January 2026 and February 2026, respectively. The forecasted demand for January 2026 is 250 units and smoothing constant is 0.7 . Using the exponential smoothing method, the forecast of the demand for castings in March 2026 is $\_\_\_\_$ units (in integer).
Considering the actual demand and the forecast for a product given in the table below, the mean forecast error and the mean absolute deviation, respectively, are
$$ \begin{array}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|} \hline \text { Period } & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 & 8 & 9 & 10 \\ \hline \text { Actual demand } & 425 & 415 & 420 & 430 & 427 & 418 & 422 & 416 & 426 & 421 \\ \hline \text { Forecast } & 427 & 422 & 416 & 422 & 423 & 420 & 419 & 418 & 430 & 415 \\ \hline \end{array} $$
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