This release (v16. 6) extends the Two-Energy Theory (TDE) “octant ladder” mass geometry: a discrete lattice built from fixed hardware constants k = 4π + 1 and the fine-structure constant α, defining energy quanta E1 = α^ (-1) /4, E0 = k·E1, and E2 = E1/k. Hadron masses are represented on a quantized grid M = A·E0 + B·E1 + C·E2 with A, B ∈ 0. 5·Z and integer C. The forward map F assigns (A, B, C) using only PDG features (quark content, charge, JP, and state labels such as 1S/2S/1P where available). Mass values are not used as inputs; reverse-lookup to the nearest lattice node is provided for diagnostics only. Compared to v16. 5, v16. 6 increases forward coverage by adding a class-based rule for heavy–light P-wave (L=1) mesons (D0*, D1, D2*; B2*, Bs2*), and hardens the quark-content parser to prevent accidental family misclassification from free-form PDG strings (e. g. , “Maybe non-qq”). Audit summary (PDG-derived table, N=527): - Forward covered-set: 96 states (coverage 18. 22%) - Covered-set error: MAE 4. 616 MeV, RMSE 5. 891 MeV, MAPE 0. 234% This “coverage-first audit” is intended to be falsifiable: rules are defined from labels/quantum numbers, then evaluated against the PDG reference masses.
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