No. Nobody ever reproduces papers exactly, because you can’t. There are too many variables, and even though you try to control as many as possible, you can sti

No. Nobody ever reproduces papers exactly, because you can’t. There are too many variables, and even though you try to control as many as possible, you can still be blindsided by the random variate that you didn’t anticipate. Scientific results that are robust to random variation are the important ones. The ones that can only be reproduced exactly as specified are most likely to be “meaningless”.