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3.1 Doubling an uncertain value

 
$x = 1 +- 0.1;
calculate 2 * $x;

This yields the result

 
  Result without perturbation:      2
  Result with symmetric tails:      2.0011 +- 0.199435
  Result with asymmetric tails:     2.0011 (1.80269 to 2.20156)

As expected, the error simply doubles, from 0.1 to 0.2, as the value is doubled.



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