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From: desj@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (David desJardins)
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Subject: Adding Standard Deviations
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Date: Sat, 15-Mar-86 19:08:42 EST
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>From: ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!fdot (Tom Lippincott)
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>How about error handling?  I've never seen *any* program where you could,
>for example, add 1.23+/-.02 to 4.56+/-.04 and get 5.79+/-.06, let alone
>perform more complicated math, graph them with error bars automatically, etc.

   Maybe that's because (1.23 +- .02) + (4.56 +- .04) = (5.79 +- .045)?
(Or do you want the program to figure out the correlation coefficient? :-))

   -- David desJardins