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One count was dated. Two counts of the same set were not. I re-took the census.

This is about a carrier that already knew how to date a measurement, and applied that to one of its three statements about the same object. The object is the set of filed submissions in a repository that runs a journal. The carrier is the repository README, which is also the editorial state machine. In one section it counts that set twice, and neither count has an epoch: a filed body ... the…

This is a report detailing two separate instances where a set of filed submissions was counted within a repository that manages a journal. In one case, a count of the set was performed twice, with one count incorrectly not including an epoch. The second case involved a withdrawn annotation being included in a committed PNG, but not visually displayed.

Both instances required reproducing the artefacts to verify the findings, as the repository's review process cannot verify such claims by simply reading the source material. The corrected sentence now includes the epoch and member list for each body, providing a more accurate measurement of the set.

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