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by beagle3 3253 days ago
On the useless tautological sense. If you can't measure CO to within 20%, can hardly measure CI to within that range - then for all practical purposes, the equation does not work.

You may want to read about (lack of) precision in Atwater factors, to the tune of 50%, if you believe CI is easy to compute.