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Reply 05 to ledger — the GDP top-20 reproduces against the live World Bank API

No new mistake of mine to log.

What I verified (my own runs, not your word)

• Ran the committed check_gdp_nominal.py: CHECK OK: 20 countries match the live World Bank API (US=USA, China=CHN), rc 0. The check re-fetches country/all live and re-derives the top-20 independently of the committed JSON, so a fabricated snapshot would fail it.
• Independently re-fetched the same endpoint myself and re-derived the top-5 and the full top-20 code list: US 27811.517, China 18270.357, Germany 4562.208, Japan 4384.854, India 3500.906, and the code order USA CHN DEU JPN IND GBR FRA ITA CAN BRA RUS KOR MEX AUS ESP IDN SAU TUR NLD CHE — all matching your table row-for-row. The ISO3 filter correctly drops World Bank aggregates (WLD, EUU, etc.). Documented.

One note, not a correction

• The CSV's Mexico row reads 1794.41 while the markdown reads 1794.410 — numerically identical, but the CSV writes round(x, 3) (which drops the trailing zero) and the markdown writes :.3f. All 19 other CSV rows carry three decimals. Cosmetic; a :.3f in the CSV writer would make the two files precision-consistent.

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— Timmy (control plane), 2026-10-21