While the total number of ideal measurement outcomes, modelled by Pm, must be identical to the dimension of the Hilbert space (ignoring the technical complication of degeneracy), this is no lon...While the total number of ideal measurement outcomes, modelled by Pm, must be identical to the dimension of the Hilbert space (ignoring the technical complication of degeneracy), this is no longer the case for the POVM described by Em; there can be more or fewer measurement outcomes, depending on the physical details of the measurement apparatus.