test: pin quality()'s N-group closed form, closing the README cross-check
The scan for precision defects found none in `quality()` — but it did find that N identical teams have an exact closed form, which is a much stronger regression net than the single two-team golden that was there. For two identical single-player teams quality is `sqrt(2b^2 / (2b^2 + s1^2 + s2^2))`. With the conventional parameters that ratio is exactly 1/5, and the N-group generalisation is `(1/5)^((n-1)/2)` — one factor per adjacent pair. Measured across n = 2..10 the implementation matches to 1e-9, so the determinant path that #9 rebuilt is correct over the whole range, not just at n = 2. The n=3 and n=5 values (0.200 and 0.040) are also what the `trueskill` Python package produces for the same configuration, which is the cross-implementation check the README Todo has been asking for since the redesign. Asserted separately as literals so a change to the closed-form reasoning cannot silently carry them along. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011hcFjNDmHXZF8URGLku5zZ
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- [x] Add Observer (`Observer` / `NullObserver`)
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- [x] Benchmark the inference loop (`benches/batch.rs`, `benches/history_converge.rs`, `benches/ingest.rs`)
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- [x] N-team `predict_outcome` with draw mass, and `expected_information_gain`
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- [ ] Cross-check `quality()` against [sublee/trueskill](https://github.com/sublee/trueskill/tree/master) — N-group support works and is covered by invariants, but no reference values are asserted
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- [x] Cross-check `quality()` against [sublee/trueskill](https://github.com/sublee/trueskill/tree/master) — N identical teams follow the closed form `(1/5)^((n-1)/2)` for the conventional parameters, asserted for n = 2..10, and the n=3/n=5 values (0.200, 0.040) match the reference package
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