Still Five Significant Figures
A number that follows from a definition, a number settled by measurement, and a number that depends on an unstated choice get printed to the same decimal place. Asking what more effort buys separates all three.
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The Eye Jumped to the Wrong Line
Scribal errors are not random. Each named type has a trigger in the script itself, which means the corruption profile is a property of the medium rather than the copyist.