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What should a person do for increasing accuracy if he is getting different values of length of a rod when measuring different times?

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If someone is getting different values of measurement of same length when measuring dirrerent times, he cannot know which measurement is the most accurate one. So, to get more accurate value of the measurement he should take average of all the measurements.

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