P2 v2 · Who Owns the Number · s0 overture — FIGURE 01

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FIGURE 01 Ownership over time — the reversion

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still boundary = grade A — a settled reading. Here both boundaries shimmer because they are grade B: the edges of the anomaly are themselves uncertain.
shimmering = grade C — most uncertain; amplitude is the uncertainty. (No grade C on this plate.)
cyan = an independent number — an audit, a census, a court finding: held by a third party.
amber = a seller-owned number — the party being judged counting its own audience or log.
struck red = a corrected / DEAD claim — none on this plate; redline never touches an ownership mark.

Reduced motion: the sweep and the shimmer stop — the amber→cyan→amber steps stand as hard swaps, and the grade badges carry the uncertainty.

readHover an epoch, a boundary (1914 · ~2004) or a drift marker to read who held the count. The track is one number; only its owner changes.
x = year (zinc scaffold). Basis: an independent third party (cyan) · the party being judged (amber) held the count. No value axis — there is no numeric ownership series.
A reading — not a measurement No numeric ownership series exists. This track is a reading of who held the count, grounded in dated claims; the shape — seller-owned, then a ~90-year independent audit, then seller-owned again — is the argument, not a measured quantity.
One tracked number changes hands: seller-owned before 1914, independent across the 1914 audit era, then seller/platform-owned from the 2000s — the platform era is a return, not a new crisis.