docs: extensive PDA payload investigation, split-region semantics resolved (#2)#19

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docs: identify two CheckSum fields, rule out CRC-16/fp16 hypotheses for PDA payload (#2)
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docs: resolve PDA split-region semantics, rule out block-floating-point payload hypotheses (#2)
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docs: re-run PDA decode sweeps with corrected per-region counts, fix plausibility-check gap (#2)
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docs: re-check PDA region-A entropy, re-test joint decoder with region-correct counts (#2)
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docs: manual byte-level read of PDA payload finds no new hypothesis, closes this investigation round (#2)
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docs: cross-reference PSI-MS/mzML compression schemes for PDA payload, rule both out (#2)
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