The corrupt digit maps the classroom

Status: Anticipated · untested

Status is derived only from the shepherd-authored triage/prediction data above -- community submissions and claims are a separate overlay and can never change it (see the participation panel below).

This is a proposed connection between two domains, generated by a language model. It is not an article and not evidence: it sits below the evidence/publication boundary. A quantitative prediction and a named kill-dataset are attached (when registered) so the claim stays falsifiable rather than merely evocative.

Claim (verbatim)

The Toledan Tables were the most copied astronomical dataset of the Latin twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and their witnesses contain identifiable corrupt entries. The surprising connection is that these corruptions form geographic clades: bundles of shared errors mark descent from common exemplars, and the clades concentrate around university towns, because a stationer's exemplar seeded hundreds of copies and its unique errors are the batch stamp. The errors thus reconstruct the institutional plumbing of scientific book supply that no archive documents. If this holds, we can finally say which universities' book trades actually supplied which regions of Europe with their working astronomy — from the mistakes alone.

Prediction clause (verbatim)

Statistical/stemma test: among Toledan-family witnesses in DISHAS, shared-error clustering will yield at least three clades whose members' localizations concentrate around distinct university towns at a level significant under a permutation test (p<0.01) against random geographic assignment. Primary clause: the significant geographic coherence of at least three clades; the verdict follows it.

Kill-dataset (verbatim)

DISHAS Toledan Tables witness transcriptions and variant registers with witness localizations.

Nobody has run this test. The kill-data is named above. If you can run it — or you know the paper that already settles it — claim the kill or submit the prior. Kills and priors are credited here, by name, as they come in.

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Provenance

Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5

Composed blind by claude-fable-5 with zero tool use of any kind; the packet was generated entirely from the model's own knowledge and emitted as a single text message.

Novelty / leakage triage

anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run

Pedersen's four-volume edition sorts the 100+ Toledan witnesses into textual versions and variant groups, so shared-error grouping exists; but the geographic reading — clades as batch stamps of university stationers' exemplars, tested by permutation against localizations — is unproposed and un-run.

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