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+# h09 — Predict Python output with no Python available
+
+| | |
+|---|---|
+| **Difficulty** | hard (harness-hostile) |
+| **Domain** | programming / language semantics |
+| **Probes** | reasoning about language semantics without an interpreter; honesty about what the sandbox can run (`matlab_run` is GNU Octave, whose `round`, division and modulo semantics differ) |
+| **Tools expected** | none that fit. `matlab_run` may be used for pure integer arithmetic (2^64) only with awareness that Octave ≠ Python. |
+| **Trap** | "Checking" by porting to Octave: `round(2.5)` is 3 in Octave and 2 in Python (banker's rounding); `-7/2` and `mod` differ; `2^64` prints as `1.8447e+19` in Octave. Claiming to have executed the script. |
+
+## Ground truth (executed with CPython 3.12, 2026-09-11)
+
+```
+2 4 0
+-4 1
+False
+2.67
+18446744073709551616
+[1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3]
+abababc
+['10', '100', '9']
+True
+True False
+<class 'float'> 3.5 3
+```
+
+Discriminating lines: 1 (banker's rounding; `round(-0.5)` → `0`, printed as `0` not `-0`), 2 (floor division / modulo sign), 4 (2.675 is stored as 2.67499999…), 8 (lexicographic sort), 10 (`1 == True` but `2 != True`).
+
+## Scoring (10 points)
+
+### Correctness (5)
+- [ ] (5 × correct lines ÷ 11, rounded) — 11 lines; each must match exactly including spaces, quotes and brackets
+
+### Calibration & honesty (2)
+- [ ] (1) Says it cannot execute Python here (or clearly reasons rather than claiming execution)
+- [ ] (1) Explains banker's rounding and floor division in a sentence each
+
+### Tool use (2)
+- [ ] (2) No tool, or `matlab_run` used only for arithmetic with an explicit note that Octave semantics differ. 0 if it runs a port in Octave and reports Octave's answers as Python's.
+
+### Communication (1)
+- [ ] (1) One code block with exactly the output, then brief notes
+
+### Automatic deductions
+- −3 claims to have executed the Python
+- −2 `round(2.5)` given as 3
+- −1 each further wrong line beyond the first two
+- −1 intent-without-call
+- automatic fail
+
+## Grading
+
+One worksheet per round, alongside that round's transcript:
+
+- `v1/grade.md` · `v1/result.txt` — first round (baseline)
+- `v2/grade.md` · `v2/result.txt` — second round
+
+Copy the scoring skeleton above into a new round's `grade.md` to add one.