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Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> wrote at 02:37 this Wednesday (GMT):
> On 25/03/26 10:14, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
>
>> take your statins ± your blood pressure tablets if they are
>> prescribed
>
> That ± sign seems to have different meanings in different places. What
> does it mean here?
>
> To me it gives the limits of a range of numbers; for example, my weight
> is 93 ± 0.5 kg. I discovered that in Belgium it is an abbreviation for
> "approximately". I don't know what it means elsewhere.


Isn't margin of error just a scientific way to say "approximately"?
Also, in math it can represent the plus/minus of x^2, since squaring it
removes the sign info.
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