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Webb finds molecule only made by living things in another world (mashable.com)
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Webb finds molecule only made by living things in another world::undefined

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[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why such different gaps in the metric? Nearly 30% difference between sigmas to less than 5% for the next one.

[–] Womble@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it comes from the shape of the normal distribution (the bell curve) it goes down slowly at first then rapidly and then slowly creeping towards 0 but never getting there.