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What is an error? What are constant errors?

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The amount of uncertainity present in the measurement of physical quantities by any instrument is called an error. With the result of a series of measurements are in error by the same amount, such an error is called constant error (or) Systematic errors with a constant magnitude are called constant errors.
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