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v1.3.0 (2026-10-08)

  • Forward line references resolve: &67 on line 65 answers with
    line 67's result. The spec always promised references to "any
    line, above or below", but the engine evaluated one strict
    top-down pass, so anything pointing downward stayed blank
    forever. The sheet now re-evaluates - whole-sheet passes seeded
    with the previous pass's results, stopping when the rendered
    answers stop changing (a cap of 8 bounds it) - so chains resolve
    one link per pass and a summary line at the top of a section can
    cite the derivation at the bottom. Cycles never ignite: no line
    in a circular chain is ever seeded, so a cycle stays blank
    rather than showing a wrong number, and sheets without forward
    references still cost exactly one pass. Unit lines resolve
    forward too (&2 kg * 2 over 3 kg answers 6 kg). The starter
    sheet's Line references section demos it live: a backward ref and
    a forward ref, both answering.
  • A research wave (three agents: engine design, reference-app
    semantics, app blast radius) drove the design. The interesting
    negative result: iteration-as-cycles (a Newton's-method guess
    referencing itself) does NOT work under re-pass evaluation -
    cycles never ignite and seeds reset each pass - so converging
    iterations stay with recursive functions, where they are already
    sound.