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The paper discusses the concept of non-exactness of measurement results, and analyzes it by clearly distinguishing between: (i) the way the results are expressed to make their uncertainty explicit; (ii) the way the chosen expression is interpreted as a suitable combination of non-specificity and uncertainty; (iii) the way the interpreted results are formally dealt with. In this perspective the merits and flaws of the ISO Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement are highlighted.
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Mari, L., Reznik, L. (2003). Uncertainty in Measurement: Some Thoughts about its Expressing and Processing. In: Reznik, L., Kreinovich, V. (eds) Soft Computing in Measurement and Information Acquisition. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 127. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36216-6_1
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