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An ideal position measurement of a normalized wavefunction ψ assigns a probability to each spatial region A through the Born rule: P(A)=∫A​∣ψ(x)∣2dx. This specifies outcome statistics; it does not by itself specify the post-measurement state. A physical detector has finite spatial resolution, which must be included in its measurement model.

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