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The standard-versus-PTC raw record in English, numbers checked one by one

Are the figures on the English page — 126,720, 51,968 — the same set as on the Chinese page?

VerifiedVersion and environmentChecked 2026-11-14
Counterpart
/lab/standard-vs-ptc.html
Tool
tools/parity.py (multiset comparison)
Checked
2026-11-14

Copyable command

python tools/parity.py lab/standard-vs-ptc.html

The comparison is mechanical, not visual: extract every number from both bodies, strip thousands separators, map English number words back to digits (thirty-six to 36, one twenty-fifth to 1/25), then compare as multisets.

Results

ItemChineseEnglishVerdict
Hard numbers6968one fewer in English (same point made twice)
Core token counts30,044 / 9,175 / 792 / 1,006same✓
PTC token counts17,572 / 498 / 278same✓
Cache-hit peak126,720 / 51,968same✓
Output tokens3,359 / 562same✓
Wall clock27.0 / 6.5 s27.0 / 6.5 s✓

The one missing is because the Chinese states the 199-line result twice in its findings (once for getting the edge case right, once for the other three answering 200) while the English states it once. Redundancy, not a value difference.

The whole-site result across 52 pairs

ScopePairsMismatchedNature
Measurement, ledger, recipe, plugin pages (strict)5210All notational: SHA256 splitting into 256, version strings like 0.2.x, 59.4 percent versus 59.4%, a date inside a Chinese filename
Whole site including indexes and navigation1165325Mostly counts like 'N packages' spelled out as words; no bearing on conclusions

No second value error appears among the 52 strict pairs — the one that did (482 should be 486) is fixed. That is more meaningful than an 81 percent agreement rate: the remaining ten were each inspected and are one number in a different notation.

The tool has already caught a real error

On another page (context-compact) the Chinese said 482 sessions while the English said 486. Checking showed the Chinese figure was wrong — 486 sessions were actually scanned. Fixed.

That is the value of a mechanical check: it does not understand language, only numbers, so it catches unit-level errors both humans and models skim past. Its limit also needs stating: matching numbers do not mean matching sentences.If 'falls to 1/25' were mistranslated as 'falls below 1/25', the numbers would still agree.

One genuine translation trade-off

The Chinese phrasing for a ratio is ambiguous — it does not say whether 4.6 means 4.6 times as much or 4.6 times less — while the English 4.6-fold is clearer. Both sides take it as a ratio, consistent with the raw data (17,561 / 3,818 ≈ 4.6).

What counts as working

Check every line. All of them pass or the job is not done.

  • Core token and cache figures match across languages
  • You know the four extras come from expanded notation
  • You know matching numbers do not imply matching meaning

Where it fails

Symptom, cause, what to do — written in the order it actually happens.

SymptomCauseWhat to do
parity reports many mismatchesThe English spelled numbers outPrefer digits in English technical prose: searchable and checkable
Numbers agree but meaning differsThe tool checks digits onlyCompare key conclusions by hand, or give readers both pages

Sources

Verified means measured here. Compiled means every line carries a source.