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The lesson of this example that even an additional information on

uncertainty can be ambiguous unless the level of confidence is also

given.

Very frequently, one standard deviation is used as the quoted range

meaning that the true value lies within the quoted range of uncertainty

with a probability of 67%.

By convention, in this case the uncertainty is reported as

standard uncertainty

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