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Uncertainty propagation — arithmetic with meaning, requiring forward planning

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The claim that every measurement is a range, and that ranges combine according to specific rules, and that the result's precision is capped by the worst input. Hard because it is arithmetic-with-meaning rather than arithmetic, and because it requires forward planning in the lab (you cannot recover an uncertainty you failed to record).

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