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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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