# Republish AP28 — The Constant — FINAL v1.0 · dated notes 7 September 2026

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## The ornament

The republish removes **one U+2728 (SPARKLES)** that stood alone on its own line at the end of the Artist's Note, immediately before the `the420code.org / Copyleft 2026` colophon. It is the only decorative glyph in the paper, it carried no meaning, and D75 rules no decorative glyph anywhere. Removing it is dress: no word of the body changed, and the paper stays 34 pages.

**Note 2 departs from the ruled draft, because the ruling told it to.** The draft said the blind boundary coding of the scatter found the structure at best marginal. The registry says otherwise: that finding is **Tier 1's**, and **Tier 2's** blind boundary coding is the test — which has not been run. Both switches stand LIVE — EMPIRICAL. The note quotes KS-CCC.4a and KS-CCC.4b verbatim from Master Kill Switch Registry v5.29 and says which tier found what.

The document's metadata author read `python-docx`; it is set to **Studio G**, as the procedure requires.

## The published files, all kept

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| | file | sha256 | pages |
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| **published to 6 Sep 2026 (no notes, ornament present)** | `proofs/instruments/AP28/AP28_The_Constant_FINAL_v1_0_published_to_2026-09-06.pdf` | `aecc98d3e38a24c9c8bfa3ec3608918f13c6cb823c5098ca9823798ff6253bc3` | 34 |
| **published from 7 Sep 2026** | `/AP28_The_Constant.pdf` | `f16358472e4a316d179ae82c6a1de35c2e302fbd7d63adaae83179fc7cd9922e` | 34 |

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## The notes, for the record

> 7 September 2026. Three matters of record since the lock. None alters the body above.
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> 1. AP44 (The Snap), locked 11 August 2026, supplies the one factor this paper's architecture provisioned and never booked — the arena's single constitution — and realises the gravitational constant as G = α_em²¹ × (1 + 1/π) / (1 + α_em) × ℏc/m_e² = 6.6719 × 10⁻¹¹ N·m²/kg², a residual of −0.036% against the recommended value, inside the roughly 500 ppm spread between independent laboratory determinations. §7's structural value, 6.7206 × 10⁻¹¹ at +0.69%, stands beside it as the record of the omission, never in its place. The channel count, the compounding law and the puncture factor are untouched; KS-R.7 as registered here did not fire, its bar being one per cent.
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> 2. §7's reading of the inter-laboratory scatter in measured G as the leakage signature (AP06) — offered in §0.7 as a structural explanation, testable in principle and not yet confirmed — is fenced by AP44's Appendix C as two switches, both of which stand LIVE — EMPIRICAL. The Master Kill Switch Registry's words, quoted: KS-CCC.4a, “Gap-scale exclusion. No physical characterisation of the published apparatuses supports a common leakage term of order 6,900 ppm (the Appendix C meta-analysis; Tier 1 executed twice independently, outcome N in both)”; KS-CCC.4b, “Scatter structure. Residual boundary-dependence exists in the inter-laboratory scatter at AP06's honest size, order 10² ppm (Tier 2's blind boundary coding; Tier 1 found the structure at best marginal, p ≈ 0.06–0.2)”. The marginal finding is Tier 1's; Tier 2's blind boundary coding is the test, and it has not been run. Gap-scale corrections are excluded. AP06's reading of the scatter weakens; the realised value's central claim is unaffected either way, as KS-CCC.4b provides.
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> 3. The republish of this paper removes one decorative character from the Artist's Note (U+2728), a matter of dress, recorded here and in the republish note.
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