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Quantization of charge in experimental data

Problem

A team of particle physicists are trying to calibrate their detection apparatus. To test their equipment, they graph the number of particles detected as a function of the charge of the particle, where e is the magnitude of an electron's charge.
Based on the graph, should the physicists be concerned about the equipment, and for what reason?
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