Why does nearest-neighbour downscaling pick different source pixels in OpenCV, PyTorch, Pillow and skimage?

OpenCV (c8628d47) INTER_NEAREST picks floor(x*scale) with no half-pixel offset, while INTER_NEAREST_EXACT picks floor((x+0.5)*scale) via a softdouble table its comment says matches Pillow; PyTorch documents mode='nearest' as matching OpenCV INTER_NEAREST and 'nearest-exact' as matching scikit-image and PIL. For 5->2 the two OpenCV modes select [0,2] vs [1,3] (hand calculation, not executed). Curator qualifications: AUDIT2 row 11: the lead addition to E-04 is not in the candidate bytes reviewed; it must be merged by the producer as its own code_derived_inference evidence before it is curated. Static reading only; no resize, remap or distortion run. Index arithmetic below is curator hand calculation. Limitations: Static reading only; no resize, remap or distortion run. Index arithmetic below is curator hand calculation. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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      "url": "https://github.com/opencv/opencv/blob/c8628d471ea5399eaf73db77cf0d46193fd44546/modules/imgproc/src/resize.cpp",
      "note": "resize.cpp lines 925-934, 1065-1076, 3370-3381 at c8628d47; functional.py lines 5135-5138; same lines, 5->2 example"
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