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48 Post author: leplen 22 June 2013 04:44AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 27 June 2013 04:35:47PM *  3 points [-]

The parentheses in the last 2-digits denote that we're not totally sure those last two numbers are a one and a five due to experimental error.

No, they are the standard deviation on the previous digits, i.e. we're 68% sure that the g-factor is between 2.0023193043607 and 2.0023193043637.