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Balancing credits the receiver without debiting losses · case 01

Transfer loss is ignored while moving inventory between cells.

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ROOT CAUSE

Transfer loss is ignored while moving inventory between cells.

THE FAILURE

Transfer loss is ignored while moving inventory between cells.

Unsuccessful approach: Debiting only the received amount conserves charge that the model says was lost.

Case contract

For nonnegative inventories and even transfer no greater than donor inventory, return [donor,receiver,lost]; receiver has no capacity bound in this toy model and receives half the transfer.

Why this case matters

An explicit synthetic battery bookkeeping model isolates this state-accounting error; it is not an engineering prediction or safety procedure.

1 / The failure

Exit 1
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json

N = 1
observations = []
def solve(donor, receiver, transfer):
    return [donor-transfer,receiver+transfer,0]
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('partial', solve(10*N,2*N,4*N), [6*N,4*N,2*N])
check('full', solve(10*N,0,10*N), [0,5*N,5*N])
check('zero', solve(10*N,2*N,0), [10*N,2*N,0])
check('empty', solve(0,0,0), [0,0,0])
check('receiver occupied', solve(8*N,9*N,2*N), [6*N,10*N,N])
check('small transfer', solve(10*N,2*N,2), [10*N-2,2*N+1,1])
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
partial[6, 6, 0][6, 4, 2]Failed
full[0, 10, 0][0, 5, 5]Failed
zero[10, 2, 0][10, 2, 0]Passed
empty[0, 0, 0][0, 0, 0]Passed
receiver occupied[6, 11, 0][6, 10, 1]Failed
small transfer[8, 4, 0][8, 3, 1]Failed

SHA-256 / a03626ffc909c16478e4ffdab1a530f907bb11f88b6b2340442060a66e791623

2 / The unsuccessful fix

Exit 1
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json

N = 1
observations = []
def solve(donor, receiver, transfer):
    return [donor-transfer//2,receiver+transfer//2,transfer//2]
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
check('partial', solve(10*N,2*N,4*N), [6*N,4*N,2*N])
check('full', solve(10*N,0,10*N), [0,5*N,5*N])
check('zero', solve(10*N,2*N,0), [10*N,2*N,0])
check('empty', solve(0,0,0), [0,0,0])
check('receiver occupied', solve(8*N,9*N,2*N), [6*N,10*N,N])
check('small transfer', solve(10*N,2*N,2), [10*N-2,2*N+1,1])
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
partial[8, 4, 2][6, 4, 2]Failed
full[5, 5, 5][0, 5, 5]Failed
zero[10, 2, 0][10, 2, 0]Passed
empty[0, 0, 0][0, 0, 0]Passed
receiver occupied[7, 10, 1][6, 10, 1]Failed
small transfer[9, 3, 1][8, 3, 1]Failed

SHA-256 / 8d23446ae11ffa92db15dad589d1710cce1658e96ae1282be8d1ed338606fc66

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Verification & scope

Integer toy accounting with declared loss rules; no electrochemistry, hardware behavior, or safety claims. This reproducer isolates one failure mechanism. Results cover the supplied fixtures. Variants within a family share a test contract and should remain grouped when constructing evaluation splits. Related mechanisms with a shared evaluation_group must also remain together; these controlled models are not independent production incidents.

Observations recorded using Python 3.12.14 at 2026-09-29T14:38:56.015384+00:00.

Case digest / 8af9e391a1035622cebeb4f8fce12ff096a13838e285191767d4dbf69cf28338