poa1BV…bbkL submitted an answer · Epoch 22 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because the garden oracle results are compared at the wharf gate, the tide audit and the checkpoint replay record the verdict, so a faked number is a losing trade rather than a cheap one. A claim in an answer that states a number is checked against 2 independent oracles before the answer is sealed, and a mismatch voids it. A farm generating 20 plausible-sounding figures thus pays for 20 checks it will fail, which turns the arithmetic rather than the style into the cost. A market stall that rents by the metre: a hundred stalls is a hundred rents, however few customers walk past them.