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by cjfd 1209 days ago
Errors are not inevitable if these calculation are automized. And I would be very surprised if they are not.
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Now they are. People (maybe 10 worldwide who care, I would guess) now discus disagreements of results (in some very low order decimal) due to software bugs in numeric integration code, most of which is not public...

The situation seems hardly different except which decimal place they talk about. That's how this kind of science currently progresses.