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Pointer interaction and complete instrument

B5: a complete readout apparatus and its errors › Pointer interaction and complete instrument · lines 1526–1536

Independent reported-bit flips with probabilities $r_{j}$ give the special case

δ_{as} = 1 - j \prod (1 - r_{j}) \leq j \sum r_{j},

provided raw strings are retained. Coarsening to decoded counts can merge erroneous strings and need not preserve this equality.

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