Much Ado About Nothing: The Cosmological Constant at the Binary Floor 2^-20

One axiom. One operation. Zero free parameters. The cosmological constant is the site of the worst prediction in physics: quantum field theory’s naive vacuum energy is ~10¹²⁰ times the observed value, ‘solved’ only by a 120-decimal-place fine-tuning. This paper removes the problem. In the fold there is no continuum and no zero, so the vacuum energy is not a quantity to cancel down from a huge number — it is a floor. The cosmological constant sits at Λ ~ 1/2²⁰ = (1/2¹⁰)², a depth-20 covering level, positive and non-zero. There is nothing to fine-tune because there is no continuum vacuum sum to cancel; the value is simply the bottom of the tower. It cannot be exactly zero (a zero is forbidden), which is why the constant is positive and the expansion accelerates. The 10¹²⁰ catastrophe is an artifact of a continuum that does not exist. Machine-checked; reproduces from one command. A standalone result within the Smithian Fold Theory of Everything (SFTOE). Full corpus, code, and the run-it-yourself VERIFY.md protocol: https://github.com/MettaMazza/Smithian-Fold-Theory