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Error notation

Throughout this thesis, unless otherwise noted, the uncertainty for the given quantity is presented in parentheses immediately following the mean value of the quantity, with the order of the last digit of the uncertainty equal to the order of the last digit in the mean. That is, regardless of the position of the decimal point,


where mmmm is the mean value and ee is the uncertainty for that quantity. We show a few numerical examples below: