Introduction to Experimental Error

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known that under these circumstances people do not produce all possible decimals 0.1, 0.2, …, 0.9 with equal probability), and radioactive decay rates where only one or two counts occur in the specified time interval. • The estimated error, ±, is not the ‘outer limits’ of the variation of x: in fact, there is a x x 0 N x 0 ( ). 1 1; 1 ...

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