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Two minor source defects surfaced during zh-cn resync review (ols, cass_fiscal)

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Description

While resyncing the Chinese edition (lecture-python.zh-cn) against current main (c0146d3), two small defects in the English source were noticed. Neither breaks the build; filing so they can be cleaned up at the source (the fixes then propagate to every translated edition automatically).

1. lectures/ols.md:226 — stray full stop splits a sentence. The bullet reads "The positive $\hat{\beta}_1$ parameter estimate implies that." and then continues on the next line with a lowercase "institutional quality has a positive effect on economic outcomes…". The full stop after "that" is spurious — it renders as two broken fragments. Fix: delete the . so lines 226–227 read as one sentence. (The zh translation already reads it as a single sentence, which is how it was caught.)

2. lectures/cass_fiscal.md:182 — misspelled equation label (eq:constrant_house). "constrant" should be "constraint". The label is defined but never referenced anywhere in the corpus (grep finds only the definition), so this is cosmetic — no broken cross-reference — but worth correcting for cleanliness. If corrected, only the definition needs changing since nothing references it.

Both were verified present on main at c0146d3 on 2026-07-19.

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