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Lemma: Finite-token and fixed-copy refusals

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  1. A finite token with a fixed numerical decoder cannot represent exactly an expectation taking infinitely many values on its preparation class.

  2. For two positive definite density matrices, no measurement on a fixed finite number of copies can deterministically output different exact labels.

Proof. A finite decoder has finite image, proving (i). For (ii), if , then their -fold tensor powers are positive definite. Every nonzero positive effect has strictly positive pairing with both:

Thus no label effect can have probability one for one input and zero for the other.

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