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by fulvioterzapi 1527 days ago
Errors do not sum like regular numbers. You want to take the square root of the sum of the squares of the errors.

sqrt(6.4^2 + 6.9^2) ≈ 9.4

You can have a look here: http://ipl.physics.harvard.edu/wp-uploads/2013/03/PS3_Error_...

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That PDF is great, thanks for sharing.