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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