It may be predicted that the shape of sampling aperture and its orientation over the samples will have an appreciable influence on the granularity measurement.

可以预料，方形采样孔在试样上的取向对测量结果也会有影响。

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The volume of data in one of these alternative data streams is a function of granularity (number of measurements) and intensity (bits per measurement).

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