Equation 35 · The Bit Comes Back Before the Bearing
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For the compass, returned has to mean something else, because g is a continuous parameter and no channel can reproduce an unknown continuous value exactly. The honest promise is metrological: the same agent, using the same R , applies the best available measurement and estimator , and the achievable mean-squared error is bounded below by the quantum Cramér-Rao bound,
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