A correction is presented to a quantitative study [J. Opt. Soc. Am. 55, 572 (1965)] of Rayleigh’s criterion for allowable wave-front amplitude aberration. Also, for comparison, Maréchal’s alternative root-mean-square criterion is evaluated under the same conditions.

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