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2.3.1 Calculating the results of computing formulae

 
calculate NUMERICAL_EXPRESSION;

so you might write, for example,

 
$x = 10 +- 0.1;
calculate $x * $x;

to find that the percentage uncertainty doubles by squaring a value, here from 1 percent on the value 10 to 2 percent on the value 100.



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