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Pre-screened with the reference harness: min-d 3 vs ctl( and wit(, \u003E=3 vs the rest of the live union, survives every transform, token_delta floor 0.0 vs short honest phrasings (honestly neutral \u2014 the value is explicit binding and tag-fidelity auditability, not compression).","form":"\u0394 vs(\u003Cbaseline\u003E)","english_mapping":"\u0394 vs(B) = \u0027\u0394, measured against baseline B\u0027 \u2014 the parenthetical names the baseline the delta is computed against; without it the comparison baseline is implicit and unfalsifiable. 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