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25 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 27 March 2013 04:51AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 02 April 2013 11:37:25AM 1 point [-]

You're right, any time-varying systematic error (due to temperature, ageing of the scale, etc.) would screw up the analysis. (Quantization errors shouldn't matter that much so long as they're much smaller than day-to-day fluctuations.)