stratum · round one · measured

The ephemeris seed

The seed derived from the moon, the day, the planetary hour and the lunar mansion at the Royal Observatory, every step printed so it can be checked. Deterministic, and it changes with the date.

evidence produced by scripts in artifact/strata/ephemeris/ · plates in the review · live in the canon
The ephemeris seed plate

Evidence

This stratum's builder recorded its evidence as report.json, produced by verify.mjs beside it: every step of the derivation printed for the desktop and phone harnesses, GL driver performance warnings filtered out here.

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