SSM-Clock—Scope & Tools (0.4–0.5)

0.4 What the Shunyaya Symbolic Mathematical Clock is not

  • Not a replacement for legal/civil timekeeping.
  • Not a medical/safety system.
  • Not dependent on any external ephemeris or internet connectivity (by design), but not a drop-in for regulatory time.

0.5 Pocket calculator (included)

Single-file, stdlib-only calculator supports:

tsearch   # report search horizon
phase     # model phases at candidate t
err       # residuals
cerror    # circular error
features  # global/per-cycle features + confidence

Typical usage (ASCII only):

  • Inspect T_search, probe candidate t, compare E(t) near minima.
  • Compute features including per-cycle errors and a scalar confidence Z.

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