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D-0012 · How far "elsewhere" looks

When the words are not at the cited place, how much of the library is searched for them?

The 100 closest passages by full-text search, over all 4.25 million segments.

StatusThe machine's guess — not yet ruled
Set20 Tishrei 5787 · 2026-10-01 04:45
Recorded inexperiments/2026-10-01-head-to-head (sefergraph_local.py, K)
Rests onD-0010, D-0011
Affectswhether a quote is "found elsewhere" or "not in the library"
Would change ifA quote known to be in the library that the search misses.

The options on the table

  • 100
  • 1000
  • the whole library

"Not in the library" therefore means "not among the 100 closest" — never "false".


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