“Not every one of those 11,970 carries the same weight, and the paper is careful about that rather than rounding it up.”

AAUGH IT BURNS

Right?! When I hit "That work was genuinely valuable" I literally hollered in exasperation.

For me it was “the results speak for themselves” and then simply a (large) number of automated tests run that never had human eyes.

Yes, quantity famously has a quality all its own, but perhaps not where correctness checks for something this central is concerned.