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Today, all surveyors know that it is not possible to measure a length or angle without error. To establish mathematical relations governing observations, it is necessary to perform adjustment. One of the available methods for distributing errors is the least squares method. Unfortunately, many colleagues are not aware of the finer points of the theory of least squares. In this paper, we will examine the least squares theory and its method of application step-by-step.

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