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Orbb said:Providing so many insignificant figures seems a bit strange, but on the other hand it makes no sense to assume that by these numbers, the author provides a falsification of the theory he is actually proposing.
It also makes no sense to think that the author doesn't write the number he means. If one looks at an example where everything is left of the decimal point it's easier to see: if someone says to me "There are six billion and three people on the Earth", isn't it more natural to conclude that he real means 6,000,000,003 and not "some number around six billion"?
Furthermore, doesn't that beg the question of where the uncertainties actually are?
As far as the number of neutrinos and their lifetimes, the measurement is independent of their lifetimes.