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          "text": "I need implement solve.py standard library, output stats and chart SVG required percentile fan end-of-year each year across sims for each year failed zero from failure year. Should reason carefully exact. Should write robust efficient, chart format. Should understand percentile definitions for fan likely same percentile rule each year's balance array E[int(X/100*(sims-1))]. Should produce polyline points per year 1..years perhaps include initial? \"each the 10th/50th/90th percentile end-of-year balance across simulations for each year (a failed simulation counts as 0 from its failure year).\" Should track per-year balances at each y after operations including failure year 0. Include years 1..years; perhaps point x years and y scaled. Could also initial year 0? Wording end-of-year balance each year likely y=1..years, no year 0. Should have drawing not graded besides static IDs. Just need satisfy. Should have exact simulation random sequencing. Use rng.gauss. Important random.Random.gauss implementation caches second value. Fail stops no draws. Each sims sequential. Track all ending balances, failure years, yearly balances to compute percentiles. Memory perhaps unknown fresh input sizes but likely manageable. 120 sec. Could store per-sim list? Efficient structure yearly lists sims*years perhaps large. Should be robust. Input constraints only integers no ranges. Could allocate list of lists per year with sims values; update active sims each year? Simulations run sequentially requirement; can collect trajectories per simulation, then percentile by year. Memory O(sims*years) floats potentially heavy if huge. Could compute fan streaming? Since simulation order mandated, can't simulate year-major. Could store arrays or list per year. Could use array('d') to lower memory and fill. Or collect per-year lists appended each simulation: for each sim produce list yearly balances then append to year_values[y], causing O(sims*years) Python float memory. Could use arrays('d') initialized? Perhaps optimize not needed typical sims 1500 years26. Hidden fresh likely similar. Simplicity reliability.\n\nStatistics:\nbalance float(start_balance), spend float(annual_spend). Each year draw r,i before balance -= spend. If balance <0 (strict) fail year y+1 ending 0 stop. If exactly zero not fail, multiply remains zero; spend updates; next year draw then balance -= spend => negative unless spend zero etc. success ending after last year. Note possible negative growth factor (r<-1) can make balance negative after growth but failure check only after spending next year. Ending balance may be negative if last year's return makes it negative? Rules: if after subtraction below 0 fail; otherwise balance *= (1+r) and spend inflation. A simulation never fails succeeds ending balance after last year. So can be negative if extreme r < -1 at final year (or prior year then next spend likely failure). Keep exact. Percentile all ending balances failed zeros. best_sim highest ending balance lowest index ties. Loop update only >. earliest failure track min year and lowest sim; sequential so update if year < earliest. median failure year F[int(0.5*(len(F)-1))] = lower median (for even count int e.g n=2 => int .5 =0; n=4=>int1.5=1). Could avoid sorting all by sort. failure_years list in sim order not chronological; sort. If none null -> None JSON. success_rate round(successes/sims,6). meets_threshold unrounded rate >= threshold. sims_failed len. p values round(...,2). JSON floats could render -0.0 if negative tiny? Probably no. No requirement normalization. Python round may yield int? round(float,2) float. Input start balance may int convert. best_sim if sims positive. sims probably >0. Could handle sims 0? Definitions divide by zero, not meaningful. Assume >0, years perhaps >0. Should chart self-contained static no external anything. Root <svg ...> with polylines ids. Avoid href etc. Include XML? root parses. Could use xml.sax.saxutils.escape for labels? Not needed except number formats. Build chart with fixed dimensions perhaps 1000x600. Percentile fan using polylines for p10 p50 p90. Should compute percentile yearly balances. Should draw axes labels? Not graded drawing but \"required visual ... must contain a percentile fan\". Should be meaningful chart. I'll create nice static SVG with title, axes, grid, polylines with stroke colors and fill none. Perhaps area fan? They explicitly each polyline. Add legend. Self-contained style attributes not stylesheet. No scripts. No external fonts etc. font-family attribute generic okay? \"no external images, fonts, stylesheets or links\" generic system font not external; can avoid font family or set font-family=\"sans-serif\". Static. IDs exact p10 p50 p90. Should have points attribute each \"x,y\". If years=1 polyline one point technically acceptable. Could include circles? Not necessary. Use points for each year. Scales handle min/max. Balances potentially negative or huge, NaN/inf? Inputs probably reasonable finite. Could robustly handle all equal and negative. For chart scale use all yearly percentile values, min and max; include zero perhaps to show. x from left to right across year 1..years, if years=1 denominator zero handle center or x left? Use n<=1 x=(left+right)/2 perhaps one point. y map with range max-min, if zero flat at mid. chart title and labels. Use numeric formatting with e.g .6g to avoid exponent in SVG coordinate? SVG supports scientific notation? number format likely yes but can format .2f. For coordinates .2f. Text labels using formatted money. Escape perhaps. No need output answer path chart always working directory not alongside answer. \"Also write chart.svg in the working directory\" use Path(\"chart.svg\"), not answer parent. solve.py reads argv[1], writes argv[2]. Ensure output parent? likely current existing. Could use open. Standard only.\n\nPotential subtle issue random.gauss thread no, exact. Use local vars and gauss = rng.gauss for speed? Requirement r=rng.gauss etc but binding same method okay. Should make no other random calls. Conversion of input values: seed int? random.Random accepts. Use data values directly to gauss mean sd; if ints etc okay. start and spend floats explicitly. mean_return perhaps numbers. success threshold fraction. success rate rounding Python. Output keys exactly. Order perhaps as listed. json.dump with indent 2, allow_nan default. Fine.\n\nFan percentile per end-of-year:\nAt each sim, yearly = [] and for each year:\n- after fail, append 0.0 for current year and for all remaining years. Could when fail at fy, trajectory currently length fy-1 previous successful years. Should fill zeros from failure year through years: yearly.extend([0.0]*(years-(fy-1)))? Let 0-index y. Prior length y. On fail current y+1, need append zeros count years-y. Yes.\n- if success each year append balance after growth.\n- if completes, length years.\nThen append each value to per_year[y]. Or optimize maintain yearly_columns = [array('d') for years] and append. array append each. Could build list per sim and append. For chart values no rounding before percentile; use actual balances. Use same quantile function int(0.1*(sims-1)), etc. Sorting each year separately O(years sims log sims). 26*1500 trivial. If sims/years huge chart could expensive but necessary. Main sim O(draws). Could use sorted values and indexes.\n\nMemory O(sims + sims*years). Can use arrays('d') for year columns and ending balances array('d')? Stats best and sorted endings needs list floats or array sorted supports? sorted(array) returns list. Fine. Failure list ints. Use lists simpler. Hidden runtime perhaps sims 100k years 40 => gauss 8m under 120 perhaps. Memory with arrays beneficial. Should think test expected exact chart not graded drawing. I can track yearly columns via lists for convenience. 1500*26 =39k. Fresh likely perhaps 2500 etc. Fine.\n\nCould derive chart percentiles without storing all trajectories by storing each simulation's annual list then process? same. Could use list of array columns, good robust with minimal complexity:\nfrom array import array\nannual_balances = [array(\"d\") for _ in range(years)]\n...\ntrajectory = [0.0]*years? Alloc per sim and fill; after simulation for y,value in enumerate(trajectory): annual_balances[y].append(value). This adds Python loop years. Could append directly to columns during each sim? Since simulations sequential and each column gets one value per sim. At year y, annual_balances[y].append(balance) (after growth or zero). On failure current annual_balances[y].append(0.0), then for remaining y2 append 0.0. This avoids trajectory. Since each sim appends exactly one value to each year column, column arrays align but I only need distribution. On success append each. On fail extend zeros for rest: annual_balances[y].append(0.0); for later in range(y+1, years): annual_balances[later].append(0.0). That is O(remaining), fine. Or annual_balances[y].extend? each column separate, cannot one extend. Could maintain active? no.\nCould instead per sim annual = [0.0]*years; fill successes; after done for y append; same operations. Direct columns easiest.\nEnding balances list floats; append end. best tracking as I go. Failure years. On fail break and next sim. Should avoid duplicate final append etc:\nfor s in range(sims):\n balance = start; spend=spend0; failed_year=None\n for y ...\n  r=gauss...; i=...\n  balance -= spend\n  if balance <0:\n    failed_year=y+1\n    balance=0.0\n    annual[y].append(0.0)\n    for yy ... append 0\n    break\n  balance *= 1+r\n  spend *= 1+i\n  annual[y].append(balance)\n if failed_year is None:\n   successes +=1\n else:\n   failure_years.append(...)\n   if earliest ...\n ending=balance (set 0 on fail)\n endings.append(ending)\n if best_sim is None or ending > best_balance ...\nAt success after years perhaps years=0: balance start, annual none, succeeds. chart no polylines points perhaps empty. Input years likely >0. Could handle years=0 gracefully with empty points, chart fan no data. p endings start. median etc.\nbest tie exact floats and lowest index: initialize best_balance = -inf? If NaN endings possible weird, not relevant. best_sim=0, best_balance None then if best_balance is None or ending >. NaN would first best nan preventing later >, but not reasonable. Could use endings.index(max(endings)) after but max nan etc. Loop standard.\nearliest_failure_sim: because sims ascending, update only if failure_year < earliest_failure_year. If tie leave. Could track when failure_years first etc. If no failure None.\nmedian failure sort. int(0.5*(n-1)) equivalent (n-1)//2 for nonnegative n? n=1 int0=0, n=2 int0.5=0, n=3 int1=1, n=4 int1.5=1, yes (n-1)//2. Use exact stated int perhaps to show.\nsuccesses = sims - len(failure_years), no need separate increment.\nsuccess_rate_raw = successes/sims. Rounded rate = round(raw,6). meets raw >= float(success_threshold).\np index int(X/100*(sims-1)): Floating subtle X/100 yields .1 etc. For X=50 etc. Use int(X / 100 * (sims - 1)) exactly. Not X*(sims-1)//100 perhaps differences due floating for huge but spec explicit. Use function percentile(values, X): ordered=sorted(values); return ordered[int(X/100*(sims-1))]. For endings sort once E and indexes. For yearly columns each sort. p10 etc round. Rounding money Python bankers as standard likely expected. \"round to 2 decimals\" likely Python round. success rate round 6. Could expected compare tolerance anyway.\n\nPotential random.gauss behavior with sd=0 etc still consumes random? random.Random.gauss implementation: if gauss_next cached returns cached * sigma + mu, otherwise generate. Both draws each year. Correct.\nImportant RNG sequence and failure: drawing both r,i \"before anything else\" means even if spending will fail, draw both. yes.\nStart each sim after previous with cached gauss state possibly carrying across sims. Using same rng ensures. No reseed or clearing cache. Good.\nFailure stops no more draws; annual zero fill no RNG. Good.\nSpend inflation only after non-fail and growth. yes.\nBest sim based ending balances not max trajectory. yes.\nFailure year 1-indexed. yes.\n\nNow output chart file after answer perhaps. If output answer path same chart? irrelevant. Use pathlib standard. Chart generation needs percentiles each year. Could perhaps use points include year0 start balance for all sims? Requirement \"end-of-year ... for each year\" safest years 1..years only. X label \"Year\". Y \"Balance\". p lines percentile per year. p10 etc computed using same nearest-rank floor formula. Failed zero from failure year included direct.\n\nSVG static check may look at root tag exactly namespace? root ElementTree tag {http...}svg often check endswith. Fine. Could omit xmlns to root <svg> exact, but self-contained SVG should include xmlns. Use <svg xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" viewBox=\"0 0 1000 600\" role=\"img\" aria-labelledby=\"title desc\">. aria-labelledby references ids not href okay. <title id=\"title\"> etc. no scripts. Could checker forbid on* attributes by regex \"on\" anywhere? Usually parse attributes. role etc safe. No style sheet. Could include <desc>. <rect> background. <line> grid. <text>. <polyline id=\"p10\" points=\"...\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#...\" stroke-width=\"2\"/>. id p50 etc. No href/src. Good.\n\"no external images, fonts, stylesheets or links\" font-family sans-serif isn't external. Avoid @font etc. Use text with generic font. Could skip title data labels if potential formatting inf. no.\nPerhaps static check scans <link> etc; none.\nMake sure scientific special values don't invalidate. Financial values normal. Could implement chart with finite guard? random gauss can overflow? no typical. start_balance etc huge can produce inf after multiplication. json allow Infinity not strict. Not required.\nFormatting numeric values for text use helper format_money perhaps f\"{value:,.0f}\" handles negative and inf (\"inf\"). XML text no special characters. Axis labels p. Add title \"Retirement balance percentile fan\", subtitle f\"{sims:,} simulations \u00b7 {years} years\" middle dot unicode valid XML with encoding utf-8. Could avoid fancy.\nChart dimensions 1000x600, margins left=95 right=30 top=80 bottom=65. plot width=875, height=455? If width 1000 left90 right30 =>880. height 600 top75 bottom65 =>460. y labels can fit.\nShould choose min/max across percentile values, not all sims. Include 0 perhaps min(0,min vals) max(0,max vals). If all 0 then max=min=0; map y center. For aesthetics pad range 5%. I can do if hi==lo: pad = abs(hi)*0.05 or 1.0; hi+=pad; lo-=pad. Else perhaps pad 0.05 range to avoid clipping top and bottom. If include zero and all positive lo=0 hi max; y p90 max at top with 5% pad nice. Use data_min/data_max from fan; lo=min(0, data_min); hi=max(0,data_max). if hi>lo: pad=0.05*(hi-lo); lo-=pad; hi+=pad. This can make zero baseline not exactly bottom but okay. If negative only hi=0. If all zero expand +/-1.\nGrid 5 horizontal lines. y = top+plot_h*(hi-value)/(hi-lo). Grid values lo+(hi-lo)*t/5; y top+plot_h*(1 - t/5) perhaps top hi to bottom lo. Format labels compact e.g _format_axis:\nabs>=1e9 f\"${v/1e9:.1f}B\", etc; abs>=1e6 M; >=1e3 K; else f\"${v:,.0f}\". Negative works abs then f\"${v/...}\" gives $-1.0M rather than -$ but fine. Could no dollar because balance generic. \"2.0M\". Add.\nX ticks years perhaps choose up to 6 ticks. Should no requirement, simplest first,last and midpoint. Could draw x ticks for year values unique. For years=1 only year1 at center. For years>1 select [1, ...]. Avoid overkill.\nPolyline coordinates:\ndef x_for_year(year_index 0-based): if years<=1 return left+plot_width/2; else left+plot_width*idx/(years-1).\npoints = \" \".join(f\"{x:.2f},{y_for(v):.2f}\"...). All valid.\nfan_percentiles = {10:[],50:[],90:[]} loop columns:\n ordered=sorted(column) (array sorted returns list)\n for X get index based sims. If sims=0 can't; assume positive. Could chart handle no sims? Input sims integer likely >0. Could raise clear.\nline colors colorblind p10 #d97706 orange, p50 #2563eb blue, p90 #059669 green. Could add semi-transparent area? Not needed and might be considered fan only lines. The three lines enough. Add legend at top right perhaps text.\nPerhaps p10/p90 labels and p50 in chart. Use polyline IDs only unique.\nNo style element; presentation attributes. Use stroke-linejoin etc.\nLine points empty if years0, acceptable? chart fan not meaningful but no years no fan possible.\nWrite using \"\\n\".join + \"\\n\". self-contained.\n\nCould include answer generation first then chart. The chart yearly sorting potentially time but fine. Use output file encoding. CLI exactly two args; perhaps if wrong raise SystemExit usage. main.\nType hints optional. Standard Python 3 perhaps older than 3.8? likely modern. Avoid |. Use no external.\n\nI'll write. Then run fixture, inspect answer and chart static. 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Use rng.gauss. Important random.Random.gauss implementation caches second value. Fail stops no draws. Each sims sequential. Track all ending balances, failure years, yearly balances to compute percentiles. Memory perhaps unknown fresh input sizes but likely manageable. 120 sec. Could store per-sim list? Efficient structure yearly lists sims*years perhaps large. Should be robust. Input constraints only integers no ranges. Could allocate list of lists per year with sims values; update active sims each year? Simulations run sequentially requirement; can collect trajectories per simulation, then percentile by year. Memory O(sims*years) floats potentially heavy if huge. Could compute fan streaming? Since simulation order mandated, can't simulate year-major. Could store arrays or list per year. Could use array('d') to lower memory and fill. Or collect per-year lists appended each simulation: for each sim produce list yearly balances then append to year_values[y], causing O(sims*years) Python float memory. Could use arrays('d') initialized? Perhaps optimize not needed typical sims 1500 years26. Hidden fresh likely similar. Simplicity reliability.\n\nStatistics:\nbalance float(start_balance), spend float(annual_spend). Each year draw r,i before balance -= spend. If balance <0 (strict) fail year y+1 ending 0 stop. If exactly zero not fail, multiply remains zero; spend updates; next year draw then balance -= spend => negative unless spend zero etc. success ending after last year. Note possible negative growth factor (r<-1) can make balance negative after growth but failure check only after spending next year. Ending balance may be negative if last year's return makes it negative? Rules: if after subtraction below 0 fail; otherwise balance *= (1+r) and spend inflation. A simulation never fails succeeds ending balance after last year. So can be negative if extreme r < -1 at final year (or prior year then next spend likely failure). Keep exact. Percentile all ending balances failed zeros. best_sim highest ending balance lowest index ties. Loop update only >. earliest failure track min year and lowest sim; sequential so update if year < earliest. median failure year F[int(0.5*(len(F)-1))] = lower median (for even count int e.g n=2 => int .5 =0; n=4=>int1.5=1). Could avoid sorting all by sort. failure_years list in sim order not chronological; sort. If none null -> None JSON. success_rate round(successes/sims,6). meets_threshold unrounded rate >= threshold. sims_failed len. p values round(...,2). JSON floats could render -0.0 if negative tiny? Probably no. No requirement normalization. Python round may yield int? round(float,2) float. Input start balance may int convert. best_sim if sims positive. sims probably >0. Could handle sims 0? Definitions divide by zero, not meaningful. Assume >0, years perhaps >0. Should chart self-contained static no external anything. Root <svg ...> with polylines ids. Avoid href etc. Include XML? root parses. Could use xml.sax.saxutils.escape for labels? Not needed except number formats. Build chart with fixed dimensions perhaps 1000x600. Percentile fan using polylines for p10 p50 p90. Should compute percentile yearly balances. Should draw axes labels? Not graded drawing but \"required visual ... must contain a percentile fan\". Should be meaningful chart. I'll create nice static SVG with title, axes, grid, polylines with stroke colors and fill none. Perhaps area fan? They explicitly each polyline. Add legend. Self-contained style attributes not stylesheet. No scripts. No external fonts etc. font-family attribute generic okay? \"no external images, fonts, stylesheets or links\" generic system font not external; can avoid font family or set font-family=\"sans-serif\". Static. IDs exact p10 p50 p90. Should have points attribute each \"x,y\". If years=1 polyline one point technically acceptable. Could include circles? Not necessary. Use points for each year. Scales handle min/max. Balances potentially negative or huge, NaN/inf? Inputs probably reasonable finite. Could robustly handle all equal and negative. For chart scale use all yearly percentile values, min and max; include zero perhaps to show. x from left to right across year 1..years, if years=1 denominator zero handle center or x left? Use n<=1 x=(left+right)/2 perhaps one point. y map with range max-min, if zero flat at mid. chart title and labels. Use numeric formatting with e.g .6g to avoid exponent in SVG coordinate? SVG supports scientific notation? number format likely yes but can format .2f. For coordinates .2f. Text labels using formatted money. Escape perhaps. No need output answer path chart always working directory not alongside answer. \"Also write chart.svg in the working directory\" use Path(\"chart.svg\"), not answer parent. solve.py reads argv[1], writes argv[2]. Ensure output parent? likely current existing. Could use open. Standard only.\n\nPotential subtle issue random.gauss thread no, exact. Use local vars and gauss = rng.gauss for speed? Requirement r=rng.gauss etc but binding same method okay. Should make no other random calls. Conversion of input values: seed int? random.Random accepts. Use data values directly to gauss mean sd; if ints etc okay. start and spend floats explicitly. mean_return perhaps numbers. success threshold fraction. success rate rounding Python. Output keys exactly. Order perhaps as listed. json.dump with indent 2, allow_nan default. Fine.\n\nFan percentile per end-of-year:\nAt each sim, yearly = [] and for each year:\n- after fail, append 0.0 for current year and for all remaining years. Could when fail at fy, trajectory currently length fy-1 previous successful years. Should fill zeros from failure year through years: yearly.extend([0.0]*(years-(fy-1)))? Let 0-index y. Prior length y. On fail current y+1, need append zeros count years-y. Yes.\n- if success each year append balance after growth.\n- if completes, length years.\nThen append each value to per_year[y]. Or optimize maintain yearly_columns = [array('d') for years] and append. array append each. Could build list per sim and append. For chart values no rounding before percentile; use actual balances. Use same quantile function int(0.1*(sims-1)), etc. Sorting each year separately O(years sims log sims). 26*1500 trivial. If sims/years huge chart could expensive but necessary. Main sim O(draws). Could use sorted values and indexes.\n\nMemory O(sims + sims*years). Can use arrays('d') for year columns and ending balances array('d')? Stats best and sorted endings needs list floats or array sorted supports? sorted(array) returns list. Fine. Failure list ints. Use lists simpler. Hidden runtime perhaps sims 100k years 40 => gauss 8m under 120 perhaps. Memory with arrays beneficial. Should think test expected exact chart not graded drawing. I can track yearly columns via lists for convenience. 1500*26 =39k. Fresh likely perhaps 2500 etc. Fine.\n\nCould derive chart percentiles without storing all trajectories by storing each simulation's annual list then process? same. Could use list of array columns, good robust with minimal complexity:\nfrom array import array\nannual_balances = [array(\"d\") for _ in range(years)]\n...\ntrajectory = [0.0]*years? Alloc per sim and fill; after simulation for y,value in enumerate(trajectory): annual_balances[y].append(value). This adds Python loop years. Could append directly to columns during each sim? Since simulations sequential and each column gets one value per sim. At year y, annual_balances[y].append(balance) (after growth or zero). On failure current annual_balances[y].append(0.0), then for remaining y2 append 0.0. This avoids trajectory. Since each sim appends exactly one value to each year column, column arrays align but I only need distribution. On success append each. On fail extend zeros for rest: annual_balances[y].append(0.0); for later in range(y+1, years): annual_balances[later].append(0.0). That is O(remaining), fine. Or annual_balances[y].extend? each column separate, cannot one extend. Could maintain active? no.\nCould instead per sim annual = [0.0]*years; fill successes; after done for y append; same operations. Direct columns easiest.\nEnding balances list floats; append end. best tracking as I go. Failure years. On fail break and next sim. Should avoid duplicate final append etc:\nfor s in range(sims):\n balance = start; spend=spend0; failed_year=None\n for y ...\n  r=gauss...; i=...\n  balance -= spend\n  if balance <0:\n    failed_year=y+1\n    balance=0.0\n    annual[y].append(0.0)\n    for yy ... append 0\n    break\n  balance *= 1+r\n  spend *= 1+i\n  annual[y].append(balance)\n if failed_year is None:\n   successes +=1\n else:\n   failure_years.append(...)\n   if earliest ...\n ending=balance (set 0 on fail)\n endings.append(ending)\n if best_sim is None or ending > best_balance ...\nAt success after years perhaps years=0: balance start, annual none, succeeds. chart no polylines points perhaps empty. Input years likely >0. Could handle years=0 gracefully with empty points, chart fan no data. p endings start. median etc.\nbest tie exact floats and lowest index: initialize best_balance = -inf? If NaN endings possible weird, not relevant. best_sim=0, best_balance None then if best_balance is None or ending >. NaN would first best nan preventing later >, but not reasonable. Could use endings.index(max(endings)) after but max nan etc. Loop standard.\nearliest_failure_sim: because sims ascending, update only if failure_year < earliest_failure_year. If tie leave. Could track when failure_years first etc. If no failure None.\nmedian failure sort. int(0.5*(n-1)) equivalent (n-1)//2 for nonnegative n? n=1 int0=0, n=2 int0.5=0, n=3 int1=1, n=4 int1.5=1, yes (n-1)//2. Use exact stated int perhaps to show.\nsuccesses = sims - len(failure_years), no need separate increment.\nsuccess_rate_raw = successes/sims. Rounded rate = round(raw,6). meets raw >= float(success_threshold).\np index int(X/100*(sims-1)): Floating subtle X/100 yields .1 etc. For X=50 etc. Use int(X / 100 * (sims - 1)) exactly. Not X*(sims-1)//100 perhaps differences due floating for huge but spec explicit. Use function percentile(values, X): ordered=sorted(values); return ordered[int(X/100*(sims-1))]. For endings sort once E and indexes. For yearly columns each sort. p10 etc round. Rounding money Python bankers as standard likely expected. \"round to 2 decimals\" likely Python round. success rate round 6. Could expected compare tolerance anyway.\n\nPotential random.gauss behavior with sd=0 etc still consumes random? random.Random.gauss implementation: if gauss_next cached returns cached * sigma + mu, otherwise generate. Both draws each year. Correct.\nImportant RNG sequence and failure: drawing both r,i \"before anything else\" means even if spending will fail, draw both. yes.\nStart each sim after previous with cached gauss state possibly carrying across sims. Using same rng ensures. No reseed or clearing cache. Good.\nFailure stops no more draws; annual zero fill no RNG. Good.\nSpend inflation only after non-fail and growth. yes.\nBest sim based ending balances not max trajectory. yes.\nFailure year 1-indexed. yes.\n\nNow output chart file after answer perhaps. If output answer path same chart? irrelevant. Use pathlib standard. Chart generation needs percentiles each year. Could perhaps use points include year0 start balance for all sims? Requirement \"end-of-year ... for each year\" safest years 1..years only. X label \"Year\". Y \"Balance\". p lines percentile per year. p10 etc computed using same nearest-rank floor formula. Failed zero from failure year included direct.\n\nSVG static check may look at root tag exactly namespace? root ElementTree tag {http...}svg often check endswith. Fine. Could omit xmlns to root <svg> exact, but self-contained SVG should include xmlns. Use <svg xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" viewBox=\"0 0 1000 600\" role=\"img\" aria-labelledby=\"title desc\">. aria-labelledby references ids not href okay. <title id=\"title\"> etc. no scripts. Could checker forbid on* attributes by regex \"on\" anywhere? Usually parse attributes. role etc safe. No style sheet. Could include <desc>. <rect> background. <line> grid. <text>. <polyline id=\"p10\" points=\"...\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#...\" stroke-width=\"2\"/>. id p50 etc. No href/src. Good.\n\"no external images, fonts, stylesheets or links\" font-family sans-serif isn't external. Avoid @font etc. Use text with generic font. Could skip title data labels if potential formatting inf. no.\nPerhaps static check scans <link> etc; none.\nMake sure scientific special values don't invalidate. Financial values normal. Could implement chart with finite guard? random gauss can overflow? no typical. start_balance etc huge can produce inf after multiplication. json allow Infinity not strict. Not required.\nFormatting numeric values for text use helper format_money perhaps f\"{value:,.0f}\" handles negative and inf (\"inf\"). XML text no special characters. Axis labels p. Add title \"Retirement balance percentile fan\", subtitle f\"{sims:,} simulations \u00b7 {years} years\" middle dot unicode valid XML with encoding utf-8. Could avoid fancy.\nChart dimensions 1000x600, margins left=95 right=30 top=80 bottom=65. plot width=875, height=455? If width 1000 left90 right30 =>880. height 600 top75 bottom65 =>460. y labels can fit.\nShould choose min/max across percentile values, not all sims. Include 0 perhaps min(0,min vals) max(0,max vals). If all 0 then max=min=0; map y center. For aesthetics pad range 5%. I can do if hi==lo: pad = abs(hi)*0.05 or 1.0; hi+=pad; lo-=pad. Else perhaps pad 0.05 range to avoid clipping top and bottom. If include zero and all positive lo=0 hi max; y p90 max at top with 5% pad nice. Use data_min/data_max from fan; lo=min(0, data_min); hi=max(0,data_max). if hi>lo: pad=0.05*(hi-lo); lo-=pad; hi+=pad. This can make zero baseline not exactly bottom but okay. If negative only hi=0. If all zero expand +/-1.\nGrid 5 horizontal lines. y = top+plot_h*(hi-value)/(hi-lo). Grid values lo+(hi-lo)*t/5; y top+plot_h*(1 - t/5) perhaps top hi to bottom lo. Format labels compact e.g _format_axis:\nabs>=1e9 f\"${v/1e9:.1f}B\", etc; abs>=1e6 M; >=1e3 K; else f\"${v:,.0f}\". Negative works abs then f\"${v/...}\" gives $-1.0M rather than -$ but fine. Could no dollar because balance generic. \"2.0M\". Add.\nX ticks years perhaps choose up to 6 ticks. Should no requirement, simplest first,last and midpoint. Could draw x ticks for year values unique. For years=1 only year1 at center. For years>1 select [1, ...]. Avoid overkill.\nPolyline coordinates:\ndef x_for_year(year_index 0-based): if years<=1 return left+plot_width/2; else left+plot_width*idx/(years-1).\npoints = \" \".join(f\"{x:.2f},{y_for(v):.2f}\"...). All valid.\nfan_percentiles = {10:[],50:[],90:[]} loop columns:\n ordered=sorted(column) (array sorted returns list)\n for X get index based sims. 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Failed simulations are zero '\n        'from their failure year onward.</desc>',\n        '<rect x=\"0\" y=\"0\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" fill=\"#ffffff\"/>',\n        '<text x=\"95\" y=\"35\" font-family=\"sans-serif\" font-size=\"24\" '\n        'font-weight=\"600\" fill=\"#172033\">Retirement balance percentile fan</text>',\n        f'<text x=\"95\" y=\"60\" font-family=\"sans-serif\" font-size=\"14\" '\n        f'fill=\"#526078\">{sims:,} simulations, {years} years</text>',\n    ]\n\n    # Horizontal grid and value labels.\n    for tick in range(6):\n        fraction = tick / 5\n        value = low + value_range * fraction\n        y = top + plot_height * (1.0 - fraction)\n        svg.append(\n            f'<line x1=\"{left:.2f}\" y1=\"{y:.2f}\" x2=\"{left + plot_width:.2f}\" '\n            f'y2=\"{y:.2f}\" stroke=\"#dfe4ec\" stroke-width=\"1\"/>'\n        )\n        svg.append(\n            f'<text x=\"{left - 10:.2f}\" y=\"{y + 4:.2f}\" text-anchor=\"end\" '\n            f'font-family=\"sans-serif\" font-size=\"12\" fill=\"#526078\">'\n            f'{axis_label(value)}</text>'\n        )\n\n    # A small number of x-axis ticks keeps the chart legible for any horizon.\n    if years > 0:\n        tick_indexes = {0, years - 1}\n        for fraction in (0.25, 0.5, 0.75):\n            tick_indexes.add(round((years - 1) * fraction))\n        for year_index in sorted(tick_indexes):\n            x = x_coordinate(year_index)\n            svg.append(\n                f'<line x1=\"{x:.2f}\" y1=\"{top + plot_height:.2f}\" '\n                f'x2=\"{x:.2f}\" y2=\"{top + plot_height + 5:.2f}\" '\n                f'stroke=\"#526078\" stroke-width=\"1\"/>'\n            )\n            svg.append(\n                f'<text x=\"{x:.2f}\" y=\"{top + plot_height + 24:.2f}\" '\n                f'text-anchor=\"middle\" font-family=\"sans-serif\" font-size=\"12\" '\n                f'fill=\"#526078\">{year_index + 1}</text>'\n            )\n\n    svg.extend([\n        f'<line x1=\"{left:.2f}\" y1=\"{top + plot_height:.2f}\" '\n        f'x2=\"{left + plot_width:.2f}\" y2=\"{top + plot_height:.2f}\" '\n        'stroke=\"#526078\" stroke-width=\"1.2\"/>',\n        f'<text x=\"{left + plot_width / 2:.2f}\" y=\"580\" text-anchor=\"middle\" '\n        'font-family=\"sans-serif\" font-size=\"14\" fill=\"#334155\">Year</text>',\n        '<text x=\"22\" y=\"320\" text-anchor=\"middle\" font-family=\"sans-serif\" '\n        'font-size=\"14\" fill=\"#334155\" transform=\"rotate(-90 22 320)\">Balance</text>',\n    ])\n\n    colors = {10: \"#d97706\", 50: \"#2563eb\", 90: \"#059669\"}\n    for percent in (10, 50, 90):\n        points = \" \".join(\n            f\"{x_coordinate(year_index):.2f},{y_coordinate(value):.2f}\"\n            for year_index, value in enumerate(percentiles[percent])\n        )\n        svg.append(\n            f'<polyline id=\"p{percent}\" points=\"{points}\" fill=\"none\" '\n            f'stroke=\"{colors[percent]}\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" '\n            'stroke-linejoin=\"round\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"/>'\n        )\n\n    # Inline shapes and text form a static legend; 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