fix(histogram): partial final block no longer discards the correct stride

detect_multi_interval_stride() confirmed a candidate stride on a third block
header whenever the body was long enough to contain one. But a body can exceed
two strides and still hold only two real blocks: a partial final block leaves
trailing padding. BE18193 T193L0XM.CI0H — 51 intervals at 2 s, i.e. one full
30-interval block plus a 21-interval remainder in a 2787-byte body — had every
decisive check pass at stride 612 (header at 0, header at 612, block counter
256 -> 257) and was then rejected for the absent third header at 1224. It
decoded to nothing.

A missing third header now means end-of-stream rather than disqualification.
The block-counter check is untouched — that is the test that prevents the
false positives which once handed 9,082 standard-block files to the
multi-interval walker.

Found by running the full DL2 archive against its preserved Blastware ASCII
exports (14,340 paired files, 11x the previous ground-truth corpus).

Measured over 127,035 archive histogram binaries:
  recovered 8 files (strides 92, 252, 612; BE18193, BE18191, BE9557, BE9440)
  regressed 0 files
Full-corpus verification: 14,337 -> 14,338 exact of 14,338 decodable pairs
(the 2 excluded are series-4 IDF, a different codec).

Also adds scratch/verify_against_ascii.py (per-sample decoder verification
against BW exports, with a saturation carve-out — BW clamps clipped events to
the range max while the decoder reports true counts) and scratch/offset_scan.py.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HgTe8CamXAHcAmaQ6QNcog

minimateplus/histogram_codec.py

@@ -413,10 +413,18 @@ def detect_multi_interval_stride(body: bytes) -> Optional[int]:
 
         if (_ctr(stride) - _ctr(0)) & 0xFFFF != 1:
             continue
-        # confirm on a third block when the body is long enough
-        if 2 * stride + _MULTI_HEADER_LEN <= len(body):
-            if not _is_multi_header(body, 2 * stride):
-                continue
+        # Confirm on a third block WHEN ONE IS ACTUALLY PRESENT.  A body can
+        # be longer than two strides and still hold only two real blocks: a
+        # final *partial* block leaves trailing padding.  E.g. 51 intervals at
+        # 2 s = one full 30-interval block + a 21-interval remainder, in a
+        # 2787-byte body — long enough to demand a third header at 1224 that
+        # does not exist.  Requiring it unconditionally threw away the correct
+        # stride and the file decoded to nothing (BE18193 T193L0XM.CI0H).
+        # The block-counter check above is the decisive anti-false-positive
+        # test; this one is corroboration, so a missing third header means
+        # end-of-stream, not disqualification.
+        if (2 * stride + _MULTI_HEADER_LEN <= len(body)
+                and _is_multi_header(body, 2 * stride)):
             if (_ctr(2 * stride) - _ctr(stride)) & 0xFFFF != 1:
                 continue
         return stride