Both source quantities are whole-unit counts in this argument. Their positive integer difference is consequently at least one. With a finite upper radial count, this supplies a nonzero separation from the formal zero-factor boundary.

The integer step is essential. It cannot be transferred silently to a positive real continuum parameter, where a strict inequality can be approached arbitrarily closely. Nor is the equality boundary an ordinary interior configuration satisfying the strict exterior condition.

The October manuscript derives this scalar domain restriction using the classical escape-speed relation. It does not derive a complete spacetime metric or solve dynamical collapse. The result identifies exactly which count assignments are admitted by this comparison, leaving the existence and evolution of a corresponding physical source as additional questions.