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We present the main lines of thought on error calculations since the beginning of the 19th century, focusing on the ideas announcing Dirichlet forms and on the reasons for their relevance, with the main aim of clarifying the concepts.
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Bouleau, N. (2021). Error Calculations From Gauss and Laplace. In: The Mathematics of Errors. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88575-5_17
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