Selecting a whole-unit marker does not set every subsequent residual to zero. The charge construction contains a separate small residual with its own definition. Confusing that residual with the forty-two marker changes the polynomial inputs and the physical role assigned to each quantity.

The continuously expressed interaction parameter is a realized encoding of count geometry. Its noninteger numerical value does not assert that a primitive configuration contains a fractional fundamental unit. The integer marker and the continuous representation occupy different stages of the construction.

The October source records these distinctions to make the numerical procedure reproducible. The result is a source-defined count-selection rule, not an independent measurement of a universal forty-two-unit distance. Its use in charge or coupling calculations remains conditional on the complete realization prescription and upstream calibration.