Resolution: Inconclusive
Caveats: INCONCLUSIVE_BY_DESIGN -- registered clause 1 fires, and both the compute and an independent re-derivation agree. The registered jest-markers (ه-ز-ل forms) turn out predominantly NON-jest in this particular book: the Kitab al-Hayawan is a zoology text, so the root overwhelmingly means 'thin/emaciated' (of an animal's condition) or appears as al-hazla, a poetic name for snakes that Jahiz glosses mid-text. Genuine jest-sense markers number 9 (compute) to 12 (independent) -- both under the 15-marker floor for a stable coefficient of variation, so the guard fires exactly as intended (too few markers to test spacing). Non-binding but telling: setting the floor aside, the observed gap-CV sits at the ~99.5th percentile of the shuffle null in BOTH derivations -- the jest markers are more CLUMPED than random placement, the opposite of the 'deliberately dosed, evenly spaced' signature the conjecture predicts. An honest inconclusive: the marker set did not carry the sense the claim needed in this text.
Registered against the OpenITI primary text of al-Jahiz's Kitab al-Hayawan. Claim under test (primary clause): the word-gaps between successive jest-markers are MORE regular than chance -- their coefficient of variation falls below the 5th percentile of the CV distribution from uniformly reshuffling the same number of marker positions across the text (engineered spacing, not mood-driven clumping).
Resolution criteria: SHARED CONVENTIONS (identical across all rows of this packet). (a) TEXT SELECTION: use the PRIMARY OpenITI version of each named work (the '-ara1' primary per OpenITI convention, or the single most-complete version if no primary is flagged); if a work is split across several OpenITI version files, concatenate all parts of that same work's primary version in order. The build must FREEZE the exact OpenITI version URI(s) + a sha256 per work in a freeze_manifest before any metric is computed. (b) CLEANING: strip OpenITI mARkdown structural material (header block; lines/markers beginning with '#', '~~', page markers like 'PageVNN_NNN', 'ms', milestone markers 'Milestone###', editorial '@'-tags) to leave the running body text; strip Arabic tashkil (U+064B-U+0652, U+0670, U+0640 tatweel). (c) WORD = one whitespace-delimited token of the cleaned body text. (d) MARKER MATCHING is done on the tashkil-stripped text; alif/hamza variants are normalized for marker matching only (alif-forms أ إ آ ا -> ا) NOT for word counting. (e) All raw counts, rates, and the cleaned word totals per work must be reported alongside the verdict. (f) computed_at must postdate registered_at. || POPULATION: Kitab al-Hayawan (al-Jahiz), single work. MARKER POSITIONS: word-index of each jest-marker token. Jest-marker lexis = surface forms of the roots ه-ز-ل (hazl, jest) and م-ل-ح (mulh, witticism) in their JEST sense. Because م-ل-ح also yields 'salt', the PRIMARY test runs on the ه-ز-ل root ALONE (forms: هزل/الهزل/هزلا/يهزل/هزلية/المهزلة and cognates); the م-ل-ح-inclusive result (with literal-salt tokens sense-excluded and the excluded count reported) is computed as a REGISTERED SENSITIVITY, non-binding. STATISTIC: gaps = successive differences of the sorted marker word-indices; CV = stdev/mean of the gap list. NULL: 1,000 draws, each placing the same number of marker positions uniformly at random (without replacement) over the same word count, recomputing CV. CLAUSE PRECEDENCE: (1) INCONCLUSIVE_BY_DESIGN if the work is absent, OR body < 50,000 words, OR fewer than 15 ه-ز-ل jest-markers found (too few gaps for a stable CV). (2) SUPPORTED if observed CV < 5th percentile of the null CV distribution. (3) KILLED if observed CV >= that 5th percentile. Report observed CV, null P5, the percentile rank of the observed CV, marker count, and the mulh-inclusive sensitivity.
Known priors disclosure: Held: the conjecture's reasoning (Jahiz announces deliberate dosing of jest against reader fatigue, which if real leaves a regularity signature indulgence cannot fake) and general knowledge Kitab al-Hayawan is a long text in OpenITI. NOT computed: the marker positions, the gap CV, or the null distribution. The 5th-percentile shuffle test and marker roots are the conjecture's own.
Frozen OpenITI primary texts (sha256 in freeze_manifest.json; each work's identity independently re-confirmed from its own #META# header). Sonnet computed; a SEPARATE independent Sonnet verifier then re-derived every load-bearing number FROM SCRATCH with its own cleaning + tokenization (not permitted to read the compute's scripts/results), and stress-tested operationalization robustness. Verdict authored by Fable reconciling both. computed_at postdates registered_at (rule 6). PRIMARY on the hazl root alone, with a <15-marker inconclusive-by-design floor.
Dataset: OpenITI Kitab al-Hayawan (al-Jahiz), frozen. Jest-marker = ه-ز-ل-root tokens in the JEST (hazl) sense; inter-marker word-gap CV vs a 1000-draw uniform-shuffle null.
computed 2026-07-16