Last iteration I pinned the leaf at phase 0 for reproducibility and said which
pose the game shows was not settled by it. Asked the capture, with the decision
rule stated first: the spread must beat the noise floor decisively or 0 stays an
admitted arbitrary choice.
Phase 0 is the global minimum at 13.2059, rising to 14.08 mid-cycle and returning
to 13.2065 at 600 units -- margin 0.44-0.88 against a run-to-run floor of 0.0565,
8-15x, which meets the rule. 0 and 600 agreeing confirms the cycle closes,
independently supporting the leaf's declared span.
The Decoder's point is what makes it readable: the gamma offset moves every
candidate together and nearly cancels in the ranking, so nine renders differing
only in leaf phase compare cleanly on a ~13.2 floor nobody can remove.
Broad minimum -- 0 and 15 units identical to four decimals -- so this constrains
the phase to the first 15 units of a 600-unit cycle, not to a point, from one
capture of one screen.
And the sweep that nearly said the opposite: --leaf-time takes SECONDS, so my
first sweep of 0..500 was 0 to 30000 units, every value past the group end,
returning 13.2059 six times. Third instance of the seconds-versus-units confusion,
after --time=50 and after I wrote the identical-output tell into METHOD. Made
worse because 0 and 30000 genuinely coincide, so the flat reading was partly real.
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