She double-clicked.

"It's a rounding error," Paul said. "We ignore billions of these every day."

"Down where?"

Elena made her choice. She clicked "approve."

No laws broken. No taxes evaded. Because each individual pass was too small to matter.

Then she opened a new ledger — one with no decimal limits — and began to write a story of her own. Below microminimus, she typed.

"This one is different," Elena pressed. "It's not rounding. It's a corridor."

"We have two options," Elena said. "Flag it as a statistical anomaly and let the algorithm decide. Or follow the money down."

She smiled. Some loopholes, she thought, work both ways.