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sim-numerics — Root Finding by Similarity and Analogy
Copyright 2026 Valeri Sitnikov
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (see LICENSE).
This product includes the proposed bracketing method A′, its reference implementation (simroot),
the compiled library simbracket, the benchmark harness, the problem corpora and every results file
behind the paper.
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## Code and data availability
Everything behind this paper is released with it: the reference implementation of the base rule and of A′ (`simroot/pure.py`); `simbracket`, a compiled library of A′ (Cython; wheels for Linux and Windows, Python 3.10 or later) whose results equal the reference bit for bit on all 868 problems of the six corpora; the corpora as code (`corpus_*.py`); every sweep script with its results file; the advance records with the commits of Appendix D; and `verify_article.py`, which recomputes or re-reads every number stated in this paper and is part of the test suite. All numbers come from one Linux machine (§4). Repository: ⟨repository URL⟩.
Everything behind this paper is released with it: the reference implementation of the base rule and of A′ (`simroot/pure.py`); `simbracket`, a compiled library of A′ (Cython; wheels for Linux and Windows, Python 3.10 or later) whose results equal the reference bit for bit on all 868 problems of the six corpora; the corpora as code (`corpus_*.py`); every sweep script with its results file; the advance records with the commits of Appendix D; and `verify_article.py`, which recomputes or re-reads every number stated in this paper and is part of the test suite. All of it is released under the Apache License 2.0. All numbers come from one Linux machine (§4). Repository: ⟨repository URL⟩.
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\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
We replace bisection's midpoint rule by a similarity rule --- the step
grows with how dissimilar \(f(x)\) is to the target 0, under a
similarity \(S\) with \(S(0)=1\) --- and derive its contraction factor
in closed form. The derivation fixes a base rule before any benchmark is
consulted: with the tent similarity and a three-point divided-difference
scale it is a Newton step of Muller's order 1.839, clipped to the
bracket and projected onto a budget of twice bisection whose multiplier
is its one numerical constant. On the 154 problems of Alefeld, Potra and
Shi it is level with TOMS 748 and 1.5\% behind Chandrupatla's method; on
wide brackets it is clearly behind. The gap is a decision, when to give
the model up, and we take it by analogy: at a flat root the
dimensionless configuration of the last three points recurs under zoom,
at a simple root it tends to a line, and the analogous pair gives the
order that says whether and where to split. This decision layer, about
ten discrete rules selected on two development sets, gives the method
A′. On 240 problems fixed before its code was frozen it needs 3656
evaluations against 5717 for Chandrupatla, 5535 for ModAB and 4488 with
Lagouanelle's multiplicity estimate in place of the analogy; the lead
lies in multiple and fractional roots, present in two of the six
families. With the multiplicity known, the classical transformation
grows with the dissimilarity of \(f(x)\) to 0 under a similarity \(S\)
--- and derive its contraction factor in closed form. It fixes, before
any benchmark, a base rule: with the tent similarity and a three-point
divided-difference scale it is a Newton step of Muller's order 1.839,
clipped to the bracket and projected onto a budget of twice bisection
whose multiplier is its one numerical constant. On the 154 problems of
Alefeld, Potra and Shi it is level with TOMS 748 and 1.5\% behind
Chandrupatla's method; on wide brackets it is clearly behind. The gap is
a decision, when to give the model up, and we take it by analogy: at a
flat root the dimensionless configuration of the last three points
recurs under zoom, at a simple root it tends to a line, and the
analogous pair gives the order that says whether and where to split.
This decision layer --- about ten discrete rules selected on two
development sets --- gives A′. On 240 problems fixed before its code was
frozen it needs 3656 evaluations against 5717 for Chandrupatla, 5535 for
ModAB and 4488 with Lagouanelle's multiplicity estimate in place of the
analogy; the lead lies in multiple and fractional roots, present in two
of six families. With the multiplicity known, the transformation
\(\operatorname{sign}(f)|f|^{1/m}\) is 2.4 to 6.8 times cheaper on
multiple roots.
multiple roots; A′ adds an estimate of the order, within a guarantee of
twice bisection.
\end{abstract}
\hypertarget{introduction}{%
@@ -162,8 +162,8 @@ The paper makes four claims, each measured.
The search that produced these results --- readings of the similarity
that did not pay, the decomposition of the wide-bracket gap, wall-clock
time, and the rejected rules --- is reported in Appendices A--C. The
code, the corpora and the pre-registrations are released (Appendix D and
the availability statement).
code, the corpora and the documents that recorded each test before its
run are released (Appendix D and the availability statement).
\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{0.5pt}\end{center}
@@ -400,8 +400,10 @@ while |B - A| > xtol:
if sigma is 0 or not finite: xn <- midpoint(A,B)
else:
xn <- x + min(1, |f(x)|/sigma) * (far - x) # the step, eq (4)
lo, hi <- min(A,B), max(A,B)
xn <- clamp(xn, hi - allow, lo + allow) # projection, eq (3)
if xn outside (A,B) or already evaluated: xn <- midpoint(A,B)
(if the midpoint too was evaluated: return it)
evaluate fn = f(xn); allow <- allow / 2
xp2, xp, x <- xp, x, xn
update the bracket: whichever of A,B keeps the sign change
@@ -554,15 +556,17 @@ transcribed by hand.
it reports convergence and \(f\) changes sign within \(10^{-6}\) of the
returned point, or vanishes there --- the bracketing notion of a root,
the same criterion on every corpus of this paper; \(x\)-tolerance
\(10^{-12}\); budget 200 evaluations. Scoring against the published root
instead, as the benchmarks' harness does, charges every method the full
budget on six problems where \(f\) vanishes identically around the root
in floating point (§A.5). Head-to-head counts (wins/ties/losses) are
taken over every problem of a set with the same charging as the totals.
\emph{Failures are charged the full budget}, so no method can buy a low
total by giving up early, and totals are reported over all problems
rather than over the subset a method happened to solve. Rankings are by
failures first, then by total.
\(10^{-12}\); budget 200 evaluations. Every method, ours included, stops
when its bracket is no wider than \(\varepsilon_x\) or when it evaluates
an exact zero of the function it works on; none stops on a small
\(|f|\). Scoring against the published root instead, as the benchmarks'
harness does, charges every method the full budget on six problems where
\(f\) vanishes identically around the root in floating point (§A.5).
Head-to-head counts (wins/ties/losses) are taken over every problem of a
set with the same charging as the totals. \emph{Failures are charged the
full budget}, so no method can buy a low total by giving up early, and
totals are reported over all problems rather than over the subset a
method happened to solve. Rankings are by failures first, then by total.
\textbf{Competitors.} Where SciPy ships the method, the competitor is
the library --- Chandrupatla is
@@ -655,7 +659,11 @@ its losses are the larger ones; by function family, the unit in which
these problems are independent (§7), the comparison is 6/1/8 of 15
families, a tie. The constant-free variant goes 79/3/72 against
Chandrupatla (\(p=0.63\)), 78/9/67 against TOMS 748 and 79/5/70 against
Brent.
Brent. Dekker, Illinois and false position fail \texttt{aps.13.00} under
either criterion and so keep their totals: they spend the whole budget
without converging, Dekker and Illinois stalled on one side of the zero
where \(|f|<10^{-62}\) but \(f\) does not change sign within
\(10^{-6}\).
\textbf{Table 3.} Chandrupatla, 45 problems, brackets up to \(10^{12}\)
wide, out of 264 configurations.
@@ -689,7 +697,11 @@ total evals
2 & ITP, per-problem oracle & yes & 45/45 & 1675 & 0 \\
3 & similarity, \(e^{-\lvert z\rvert}\), bracket scale, both guards & no
& 45/45 & 1778 & 0 \\
4 & similarity, \(e^{-\lvert z\rvert}\), bracket scale, bracket guard &
no & 45/45 & 1848 & 0 \\
5 & ITP, recommended constants & yes & 45/45 & 1946 & 0 \\
6 & similarity, \(e^{-\lvert z\rvert}\), bracket scale, earned
projection & no & 45/45 & 1952 & 0 \\
9 & constant-free variant: earned projection & no & 45/45 & 2073 & 0 \\
15 & bisection & no & 45/45 & 2136 & 0 \\
\textbf{49} & \textbf{base rule: tent, 3-point, projection (\(c=2\))} &
@@ -774,8 +786,9 @@ the right move is to halve, Chandrupatla's method halves on up to all of
its steps, and no reading of a single state measured takes that decision
correctly. This section takes it by a similarity of the run to \emph{its
own past} --- an analogy in Pólya's sense {[}8{]}, two situations
agreeing in more than one relation. Every rule below was pre-registered
with a stop rule (Appendix D); the rejected ones are in Appendix C.
agreeing in more than one relation. Every rule below was recorded, with
its criteria and stop rule, before its code and run (Appendix D); the
rejected ones are in Appendix C.
\hypertarget{the-flag-a-promise-that-was-not-kept}{%
\subsubsection{6.1 The flag: a promise that was not
@@ -964,7 +977,10 @@ among the many candidates of Appendix C. That selection is why the
method was tested once on a corpus fixed before its code was frozen, and
against simpler rules put in its place (§7). Algorithm 2 is the complete
method; \texttt{simroot/pure.py} and the compiled \texttt{simbracket}
implement exactly this and agree bit for bit.
implement exactly this and agree bit for bit. The nearest-configuration
search runs over the run's memory: \(O(n)\) per step, \(O(n^2)\) per run
of \(n\) evaluations (\(n\le200\) here), arithmetic that matters only
when \(f\) is cheap (Appendix B).
\textbf{Algorithm 2 (A′).} Notation of Algorithm 1;
\(S(z)=\max(0,1-|z|)\).
@@ -987,9 +1003,11 @@ while |B - A| > xtol:
# unkept promise, and unkept promise with a crossing
flag <- not in_regime and last_model and fx/fp >= 1/4
flag_over <- not in_regime and last_model and fx/fp <= -1/4
# order (6) of the analogous pair: the past configuration
# nearest to c (Euclidean in (xi, phi)), if nearer than the
# line phi = xi; inf if the pair shows L_f < 1 <= L_x; else none
# order (6) of the analogous pair. q <- the configuration in
# configs nearest to c (Euclidean in (xi, phi)); no m if c or
# configs is empty or q is not nearer than the line phi = xi.
# L_x <- |x-xp| / q.dx, L_f <- |fx-fp| / q.df
# m <- inf if L_f < 1 <= L_x (translation), else ln L_f / ln L_x
m <- order of the analogous pair
if m >= 2: analogy_seen <- true; m_a <- m
if 0 < m <= 2/3: shallow_seen <- true; m_s <- m
@@ -1003,18 +1021,20 @@ while |B - A| > xtol:
else:
step <- (1 - S(z)) * (far - x) # eq. (4)
append x - xp to moves
# step pattern: the lag 2 .. half the history of highest
# mean similarity of successive length ratios has mean > 1/2,
# and step and x - xp point the same way
if the pattern repeats:
# step pattern: q_j <- |d_j|/|d_(j-1)| over the
# successive nonzero moves d (k ratios);
# rho(u,v) <- min(u,v)/max(u,v); repeats iff
# max_{p=2..floor(k/2)} mean_j rho(q_j, q_(j-p)) > 1/2
if repeats and step, x - xp point the same way:
s <- min(|step|,|x-xp|) / max(|step|,|x-xp|)
step <- step / (1 - s), at most |far - x| long
if |step| < xtol/2 and last_model and |fx/fp| < 1/4:
step <- sign(far - x) * xtol/2 # tolerance step
xn <- x + step; model <- true
lo, hi <- min(A,B), max(A,B)
xn <- clamp(xn, hi - allow, lo + allow) # projection (3)
if xn outside (A,B) or xn in {x, xp}:
xn <- mid; if mid in {x, xp}: stop
xn <- mid; if mid in {x, xp}: return mid
last_model <- model and xn is the model's own point
fn <- f(xn)
if in_regime: # exit
@@ -1056,8 +1076,8 @@ A′ per problem, CHA
\endlastfoot
\textbf{A′ (proposed)} & \textbf{2259} & \textbf{1074} & \textbf{3333} &
--- & --- \\
A′, earned budget (no free constant) & 3417 & 1852 & 5269 & & \\
base rule (§3) & 2634 & 2357 & 4991 & & \\
A′, earned budget (no free constant) & 3417 & 1852 & 5269 & --- & --- \\
base rule (§3) & 2634 & 2357 & 4991 & --- & --- \\
Chandrupatla & 2595 & 1505 & 4100 & 103/20/31, \(p=3\cdot10^{-10}\) &
31/4/10, \(p=0.001\) \\
TOMS 748 & 2636 & 3088 & 5724 & 127/6/21 & 42/2/1 \\
@@ -1126,8 +1146,8 @@ sign contradiction & +11 & −12 & +29 & 0 & +1 & −1 & +28 \\
Every component is positive in sum; the regime and the split carry the
method. The step pattern (earns on two corpora of six) and the sign
contradiction (+28 over 855 problems) are marginal --- together under
one per cent, 117 of 13032 evaluations --- and are kept because the
pre-registered rule removes only a component that earns nowhere.
one per cent, 117 of 13032 evaluations --- and are kept because the rule
recorded in advance removes only a component that earns nowhere.
\textbf{Table 7.} The similarity in the step of A′: the same method with
each of the nine similarity functions of §5.2 in place of the tent,
@@ -1220,22 +1240,25 @@ Roots.jl's \texttt{Order1B} and \texttt{Order2B} {[}12{]}); inside a
bracket, {[}22{]} needs the multiplicity given and recognises a multiple
root only by the number of evaluations spent, against a third of
bisection's; Chandrupatla takes the decision to halve by an empirical
acceptance band {[}3{]}. §7.1 puts this claim against the detectors a
reader would try first, and against the transformation with the
multiplicity known in advance.
acceptance band {[}3{]}. §7.1 tests this against the detectors a reader
would try first and against the classical transformation with the
multiplicity known or estimated, and the outcome is sharper than the
claim: the order read by analogy transfers to the classical frame and
works better there than in A′'s own split, while A′'s exit is what keeps
simple roots cheap.
\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{0.5pt}\end{center}
\hypertarget{out-of-sample-evidence}{%
\subsection{7. Out-of-sample evidence}\label{out-of-sample-evidence}}
Every decision above was taken on the two sets of §4. Pre-registration
protects each decision but not the chain: the final configuration --- a
decision layer of about ten discrete rules, chosen among the many
candidates listed in Appendix C --- was selected on the same 199
problems. Four further corpora were therefore used, each fixed and
committed before any method was run on it, each with its criteria and
stop rule written down first.
Every decision above was taken on the two sets of §4. Recording each
decision in advance protects the decision but not the chain: the final
configuration --- a decision layer of about ten discrete rules, chosen
among the many candidates listed in Appendix C --- was selected on the
same 199 problems. Four further corpora were therefore used, each fixed
and committed before any method was run on it, each with its criteria
and stop rule written down first.
\begin{enumerate}
\def\labelenumi{\arabic{enumi}.}
@@ -1279,8 +1302,8 @@ counting of every other method. The criterion, tolerance, budget and
charging are those of §4.
The variant carried to corpora 1--3 was A′ without the tolerance step
and the overshoot branch. It transferred to corpus 1 by every
pre-registered criterion (per problem 105/34/67 against Chandrupatla,
and the overshoot branch. It transferred to corpus 1 by every criterion
recorded in advance (per problem 105/34/67 against Chandrupatla,
\(p=0.005\)), did \emph{not} transfer to Roots.jl (38/10/30, \(p=0.4\))
and lost on the applied corpus; the two readings that closed those gaps
were developed on the seen corpora and tested once, on corpus 4.
@@ -1426,8 +1449,8 @@ advance}\label{controls-simpler-detectors-and-the-multiplicity-known-in-advance}
Two controls ask whether the gain of §6 comes from the recognition by
analogy or only from the split (7) with any reasonable detector. Both
were pre-registered, with what the paper would say under every outcome,
before the run (\texttt{sweep\_controls.py}).
were recorded, with what the paper would say under every outcome, before
the run (\texttt{sweep\_controls.py}).
\textbf{Other detectors in A′.} A′ is run with only its detector
swapped; the memory, the split, the exit and the five readings of §6.4
@@ -1483,7 +1506,7 @@ none & 2693 & 2526 & 6165 & 20749 & 113/87/40 & \(3\cdot10^{-9}\) \\
\end{longtable}
On corpus 4, the one test, A′ beats all three in total and problem by
problem, as the pre-registered criterion required. The competent
problem, as the criterion recorded in advance required. The competent
alternative is Lagouanelle's estimate: it is slightly better on the
canonical set (2235 against 2259), and on corpus 4 A′'s lead over it
lies in the multiple-root and fractional-power families (1163 against
@@ -1538,15 +1561,102 @@ corpus 4 & 88 & 2159 & 901 & 844 & 4151 \\
\end{longtable}
With the multiplicity known the transformation is 2.4 to 6.8 times
cheaper than A′. A′ is far ahead of Chandrupatla on \(f\) itself, which
does not know the multiplicity either. On the remaining problems the
transformed and untransformed runs differ little and A′ is close to
them: ahead on the canonical sets (2259 against 2640, 420 against 437
for Chandrupatla on \(g\)), behind on corpora 1 and 4 (2061 against
1924, 1497 against 1427). So on multiple roots the contribution of A′ is
the estimate of the order without knowing it, and the gap to Table 11 is
the price of that estimate --- large, and the clearest direction for
improving the method.
cheaper than A′. Every method, A′ included, stops on an exact zero of
the function it evaluates, and on the pure powers of the Chandrupatla
set \(g\) is exactly linear, so the secant lands on the root: 15 of
Brent's 20 runs and 4 of Chandrupatla's end that way there (A′: 2). On
new corpus 1 no transformed run ends on a zero, and the transformation
is still 3.4 times cheaper. A′ is far ahead of Chandrupatla on \(f\)
itself, which does not know the multiplicity either. On the remaining
problems the transformed and untransformed runs differ little and A′ is
close to them: ahead on the canonical sets (2259 against 2640, 420
against 437 for Chandrupatla on \(g\)), behind on corpora 1 and 4 (2061
against 1924, 1497 against 1427). So on multiple roots the contribution
of A′ is the estimate of the order without knowing it, and the gap to
Table 11 is the price of that estimate --- large, and the clearest
direction for improving the method.
\textbf{The multiplicity estimated during the run.} Between A′ and the
oracle lies the natural classical method: Chandrupatla's interpolation
on \(g=\operatorname{sign}(f)|f|^{1/\hat m}\) with \(\hat m\) estimated
during the run. Our implementation of Chandrupatla's method (identical
to the library on all 199 problems, and to itself when
\(\hat m\equiv1\)) keeps the true \(f\) at its three points and reads
\(G(v)=\operatorname{sign}(v)|v|^{1/\hat m}\) only in the acceptance
band and the interpolation; \(\hat m\) starts at 1 and takes an order
read from the last three evaluations whenever that order lies on a
branch of §6.1 (\(m\ge2\) or \(0<m\le\tfrac23\)), without reset --- the
hysteresis of the controls above. The order is read either by
Lagouanelle's estimate or by A′'s own analogy (recorded in advance,
\texttt{sweep\_estimated.py}):
\textbf{Table 12.} Chandrupatla on the transformed function: the
multiplicity estimated during the run, against A′, the oracle of Table
11 and Chandrupatla on \(f\). Totals, failures charged; the 148 multiple
and fractional roots of Table 11, and the simple-root canonical set. The
estimated forms have no exit: an order once taken is held to the end of
the run. A′ leaves its regime by the exit of §6.2.
\begin{longtable}[]{@{}
>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}p{(\columnwidth - 8\tabcolsep) * \real{0.2000}}
>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}p{(\columnwidth - 8\tabcolsep) * \real{0.2000}}
>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}p{(\columnwidth - 8\tabcolsep) * \real{0.2000}}
>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}p{(\columnwidth - 8\tabcolsep) * \real{0.2000}}
>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}p{(\columnwidth - 8\tabcolsep) * \real{0.2000}}@{}}
\toprule\noalign{}
\begin{minipage}[b]{\linewidth}\raggedright
method
\end{minipage} & \begin{minipage}[b]{\linewidth}\raggedright
corpus 4
\end{minipage} & \begin{minipage}[b]{\linewidth}\raggedright
six corpora
\end{minipage} & \begin{minipage}[b]{\linewidth}\raggedright
multiple/fractional (148)
\end{minipage} & \begin{minipage}[b]{\linewidth}\raggedright
APS
\end{minipage} \\
\midrule\noalign{}
\endhead
\bottomrule\noalign{}
\endlastfoot
\textbf{A′} & \textbf{3656} & \textbf{13032} & 4042 & \textbf{2259} \\
Chandrupatla on \(g\), \(\hat m\) by analogy & 3806 & 15733 & 2809 &
3453 \\
Chandrupatla on \(g\), \(\hat m\) by Lagouanelle & 7526 & 30991 & 6041 &
7215 \\
the same, branch \(m\ge2\) only (post hoc) & 5568 & 18372 & 6540 &
2960 \\
Chandrupatla on \(g\), \(m^*\) known (Table 11) & --- & --- &
\textbf{1355} & --- \\
Chandrupatla on \(f\) & 5717 & 16481 & 7011 & 2595 \\
\end{longtable}
A′ is ahead of both estimated forms on corpus 4, in total and problem by
problem (against the analogy form 126/38/76, \(p=5\cdot10^{-4}\)), and
over the six corpora. The two estimators behave differently in this
frame. Lagouanelle's reads the parabola through Chandrupatla's points,
which alternate sides of the root; there it reports a fractional order
on 115 of the 154 simple roots of the canonical set, holds it, and turns
the method into little more than bisection. Restricted after the fact to
the branch \(m\ge2\) (post hoc,
\texttt{POSTHOC\_lag\_branch\_2026-09-22.md}), it no longer breaks, but
in this frame it hardly sees a multiple root either: 6540 on the 148
multiple and fractional roots against 7011 for Chandrupatla on \(f\),
and 5568 on corpus 4, with A′ ahead 178/34/28. The analogy's order is
the better one here too, and on the multiple and fractional roots it
does better inside Chandrupatla's interpolation than inside A′'s split:
it closes 59\%, 58\% and 31\% of the gap from A′ to the oracle on the
Chandrupatla set, corpus 1 and corpus 4 (322 against 654, 721 against
1229, 1766 against 2159). It pays on simple roots, where it has no exit
to take a false reading back (3453 against 2595 on the canonical set).
Two conclusions follow. First, the order read by analogy transfers to
the classical frame and works better there than in A′'s own split: on
the multiple and fractional roots Chandrupatla's interpolation with that
order beats A′ itself (2809 against 4042). Second, A′'s decision layer
as a whole --- the detector together with its exit --- earns its place:
without an exit the transferred detector loses more on simple roots than
it gains on multiple ones, and A′ stays ahead on corpus 4 and over the
six corpora.
\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{0.5pt}\end{center}
@@ -1574,9 +1684,12 @@ translation, a simple root tends to the line, and the analogous pair
reads the order that decides between the model and a split. The method
built on it, A′, is ahead of Chandrupatla on both canonical sets, and on
a corpus fixed before its code was frozen it needs 36\% fewer
evaluations and wins 177 problems to 28. Its decision layer beats
Lagouanelle's estimate, Chandrupatla's band and no detector put in its
place; with the multiplicity known in advance the classical
evaluations and wins 177 problems to 28. Its detector, the order read by
analogy, beats Lagouanelle's estimate, Chandrupatla's band and no
detector put in its place, and it transfers: inside Chandrupatla's
interpolation on the transformed function it does better on multiple
roots than A′'s own split, while only A′'s exit keeps simple roots
cheap; with the multiplicity known in advance the classical
transformation is 2.4 to 6.8 times cheaper on multiple roots, which
measures what estimating the order costs. The claim the measurements
support is a lead over Brent, TOMS 748, ITP and ModAB everywhere, within
@@ -1592,9 +1705,7 @@ behind or level.
The first is the price of estimating the order. With the multiplicity
given, the transformation of §6.3 is 2.4 to 6.8 times cheaper than A′ on
multiple and fractional roots (Table 11): the order read from the
analogous pair, or its use in the split, loses most of what the
transformation could deliver.
multiple and fractional roots (Table 11): closing that gap is open.
The second is the steep flank. Where the loss remains --- \texttt{fun9},
the near-cancelling class, 4 − tan x at its pole --- the base step
@@ -1616,10 +1727,11 @@ implementation of the base rule and of A′ (\texttt{simroot/pure.py});
and Windows, Python 3.10 or later) whose results equal the reference bit
for bit on all 868 problems of the six corpora; the corpora as code
(\texttt{corpus\_*.py}); every sweep script with its results file; the
pre-registrations with the commits of Appendix D; and
advance records with the commits of Appendix D; and
\texttt{verify\_article.py}, which recomputes or re-reads every number
stated in this paper and is part of the test suite. All numbers come
from one Linux machine (§4). Repository: ⟨repository URL⟩.
stated in this paper and is part of the test suite. All of it is
released under the Apache License 2.0. All numbers come from one Linux
machine (§4). Repository: ⟨repository URL⟩.
\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{0.5pt}\end{center}
@@ -2254,17 +2366,17 @@ results}\label{appendix-c.-negative-results}}
\textbf{The decision reading ``defect'' does not transfer.} Combined
with the regime it was the best configuration on the two development
sets (§A.4's defect reading with the flat families of §6), and it
passed every pre-registered criterion there. On new corpus 1 it did
passed every criterion recorded for it there. On new corpus 1 it did
not: per problem 95/33/78 against Chandrupatla (\(p=0.22\)), losing
the class of exponential flanks 9 to 26. It is therefore not part of
A′.
\item
\textbf{A component rejected alone can pay in combination.}
Remembering the analogy for the run was rejected by its own
pre-registration, under the harness scoring of the time (canonical set
2814 against 2806 without the regime; under the sign-change criterion
the two are level, 2633 against 2634), and with the split of §6.3 it
is the better form (with the step pattern, wide brackets 1250 against
Remembering the analogy for the run was rejected by its own advance
record, under the harness scoring of the time (canonical set 2814
against 2806 without the regime; under the sign-change criterion the
two are level, 2633 against 2634), and with the split of §6.3 it is
the better form (with the step pattern, wide brackets 1250 against
1388 for the analogy read in one state). Composition was measured, not
assumed, throughout --- which is also why §A.2's readings (2) and (3),
each an improvement, are not combined.
@@ -2272,9 +2384,9 @@ results}\label{appendix-c.-negative-results}}
\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{0.5pt}\end{center}
\hypertarget{appendix-d.-pre-registrations-and-the-frozen-code}{%
\subsection{Appendix D. Pre-registrations and the frozen
code}\label{appendix-d.-pre-registrations-and-the-frozen-code}}
\hypertarget{appendix-d.-advance-records-and-the-frozen-code}{%
\subsection{Appendix D. Advance records and the frozen
code}\label{appendix-d.-advance-records-and-the-frozen-code}}
Every rule of §6 and every test of §7 was written down, with its
criteria and stop rule, before its code and its run. Table D1 gives, for
@@ -2282,12 +2394,17 @@ each document, the commit that first added it and the commit that first
added the results its run wrote, both read from git by
\texttt{check\_prereg\_order.py}: 25 of the 30 were committed before
their results; four were committed together with them, so git cannot
order them; one was decided on its smoke run and has no results file.
The code of A′ was committed (\texttt{8027d7f}) after corpus 4 was
defined (\texttt{657df10}) and before its results (\texttt{6d2531e});
\texttt{simroot/pure.py} did not change in between.
order them; one was decided on its smoke run and has no results file. We
call these documents advance records, not pre-registrations: they live
in the author's repository, and their order relative to the runs is
attested only by the author's git history, whose timestamps the author
sets; no external registry was used. A deposit with an external
timestamp (Zenodo, OSF) before a run would remove that limitation for
future tests. The code of A′ was committed (\texttt{8027d7f}) after
corpus 4 was defined (\texttt{657df10}) and before its results
(\texttt{6d2531e}); \texttt{simroot/pure.py} did not change in between.
\textbf{Table D1.} Pre-registrations, in the order they were written.
\textbf{Table D1.} Advance records, in the order they were written.
\begin{longtable}[]{@{}
>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}p{(\columnwidth - 8\tabcolsep) * \real{0.3030}}
@@ -2297,7 +2414,7 @@ defined (\texttt{657df10}) and before its results (\texttt{6d2531e});
>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}p{(\columnwidth - 8\tabcolsep) * \real{0.1313}}@{}}
\toprule\noalign{}
\begin{minipage}[b]{\linewidth}\raggedright
pre-registration
advance record
\end{minipage} & \begin{minipage}[b]{\linewidth}\raggedright
commit
\end{minipage} & \begin{minipage}[b]{\linewidth}\raggedright
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@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ setup(
name="simbracket",
version="1.0.0",
description="Bracketing root finding by similarity and analogy (compiled).",
license="Apache-2.0",
packages=["simbracket"],
package_data={},
include_package_data=False,