Manuscript Em04-A@2 · Em04-A-v2.tex · remark · f5b28abc
Remark: Raw numerical values need not be probabilities
Compressed oscillator position measurements › Separate preparation, tail, quadrature, and arithmetic errors · lines 1340–1346
Exact trapezoidal matrices are positive, but may exceed the identity or fail bin completeness. Rounded matrices may even lose positivity. Thus the raw scalar in (eq:bosonbudget) is an approximation, not automatically a measurement probability. No numerical clipping is implicit in the theorem.