Article (canonical .md), step 1: 42 stale numbers brought to the regenerated server sweeps (Tables 3-7, 5.3, 7.1-7.4, section 10), statements that no longer hold rephrased ((2)+(3) not worse than either alone on the wide-bracket set; the best constant-free configuration is no longer defect); the rule of section 3 renamed the base rule; new Section 8 (the flat regime recognised by analogy: the flag, the analogy with its own past, the translation limit, the split from the order, five more readings, the proposed method A', Tables 8-9) and Section 9 (out-of-sample evidence on four more corpora, Tables 10-11); negative results and conclusion renumbered 10-11. Abstract, introduction, conclusion and verify_article still to update.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

apply_article_fixes_8_9.py

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+"""Proof-reading fixes to the new Sections 8-9 of article/sim_numerics.md (exact, counted).
+
+    python -u apply_article_fixes_8_9.py
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+PATH = "article/sim_numerics.md"
+
+REPL = [
+    ("### 8.4 Four more readings", "### 8.4 Five more readings", 1),
+    ("the exit) and the four readings of §8.4", "the exit) and the five readings of §8.4", 1),
+    ("On the wide-bracket families it is ahead on eight of nine; the ninth is `fun9`, 65 against 55.",
+     "On the wide-bracket families it is ahead on seven of nine, level on `fun7` (the scoring "
+     "artefact of §7.3) and behind on `fun9`, 65 against 55.", 1),
+    ("Removing both would change A′ by a few tenths of a per cent;",
+     "Removing both would change A′'s total by under one per cent (117 of 13032 evaluations);", 1),
+    ("and ahead problem by problem on five of six.",
+     "and ahead problem by problem on all six, significantly on five.", 1),
+]
+
+
+def main():
+    with open(PATH, encoding="utf8") as fh:
+        text = fh.read()
+    bad = [(o, n, text.count(o)) for o, _new, n in REPL if text.count(o) != n]
+    if bad:
+        for o, n, got in bad:
+            print(f"expected {n}, found {got}: {o[:80]}")
+        raise SystemExit("aborted, nothing written")
+    for o, new, _n in REPL:
+        text = text.replace(o, new)
+    with open(PATH, "w", encoding="utf8") as fh:
+        fh.write(text)
+    print("fixed")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()