Solution

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In the high-resolution quantization approximation, a smooth input distribution varies little across one conversion interval, so rounding to the nearest level gives an approximately uniform quantization error . Therefore
The input must stay within the analogue-to-digital converter's range. A large standard deviation alone does not guarantee uniform quantization error: an input concentrated exactly on widely separated conversion levels has zero error. Truncation without a half-step correction also has a different mean and root mean square.

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