Solution

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Measurements at many source redshifts directly sample the function . In principle, sufficiently many precise and well-spaced measurements can fit simultaneously; a single redshift supplies only one combination and cannot. In a spatially flat two-component model, , reducing the number of independent parameters by one. In practice the signal accumulated over ten years is extremely small and parameter degeneracies require broad redshift coverage and complementary data.

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