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lxgr • 10/01/2024 • 1 reply • view on HN

But it's still an approximation, not an estimate, right? (The fact that you can list the mean radius with sub-decimal precision suggests as much.)

To me, an estimate suggests that there's error bars; an approximation suggests that there's variance that we can quantify (or at least we're very confident about our error bars).


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feoren • 10/01/2024

There are error bars on absolutely everything that we ever measure.

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