Revision step 3: restructured and shortened paper, full listing of A', code availability.

Title: 'Root Finding by Similarity and Analogy: A Bracketing Method with a Data-Selected Decision Layer'. Abstract 246 words. Main text 10.4k words (was 17.4k): search reports moved to Appendices A (old 6-7), B (wall-clock), C (negative results); revision history removed; pronouns for Chandrupatla's method fixed; tables numbered in order. New: Algorithm 2 (complete A'), the decision layer counted honestly in 6.5, Code and data availability, Appendix D (30 pre-registrations against the first commit of their own results, read from git by check_prereg_order.py: 25 before, 4 same commit, 1 decided on the smoke; A' frozen at 8027d7f between corpus 4's definition 657df10 and its results 6d2531e). Literature: Bus & Dekker 1975, Fernandez-Diaz & Menendez-Perez 2023 (two dimensionless parameters; SFRFm on sign(f)|f|^(1/m) with known multiplicity - the nearest precursor of the split), Cordero-Neta-Torregrosa 2021; Illinois and Ridders cited. verify_article: explicit check that every head-to-head row sums to its set. check_new_numbers.py: no number new to the text except headings, references, hashes. Server: verify 527 OK / 0 BAD, regression x2 1232 passed, PDF 30 pages, 0 errors, 0 undefined, 0 overfull.

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apply_table_order.py

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+"""Tables numbered in the order they appear (section 7's corpora tables come before 7.1's
+controls): 10 -> 8, 10b -> 8b, 11 -> 9, 8 -> 10, 9 -> 11, in one pass; and the last two
+pronouns for Chandrupatla's method in Appendix A.6.
+
+    python -u apply_table_order.py
+"""
+import re
+
+PATH = "article/sim_numerics.md"
+MAP = {"10": "8", "10b": "8b", "11": "9", "8": "10", "9": "11"}
+src = open(PATH, encoding="utf8").read()
+src = re.sub(r"Table (10b|10|11|8|9)(?![0-9a-z])", lambda m: "Table " + MAP[m.group(1)], src)
+for old, new in (("and 100% of his steps.", "and 100% of its steps."),
+                 ("His band inside our step confirms", "Its band inside our step confirms")):
+    assert src.count(old) == 1, old
+    src = src.replace(old, new)
+open(PATH, "w", encoding="utf8").write(src)
+caps = re.findall(r"^\*\*Table ([0-9A-D]+[a-c]?)\.\*\*", src, re.M)
+print("captions in order:", caps)