diff --git a/src/generator/shortspec.py b/src/generator/shortspec.py
index c1a96fe..62c96d8 100644
--- a/src/generator/shortspec.py
+++ b/src/generator/shortspec.py
@@ -183,11 +183,11 @@ competing with words already on the frame. Chosen silence is an edit; a spec \
 with one narrated shot out of eight is not a Short with a voice, it is a Short \
 that forgot to speak.
 - **Give every narrated shot enough time for its own line, and work it out \
-rather than guessing.** The voice reads about {words_per_second:.1f} words a \
+rather than guessing.** The voice reads about {words_per_second:g} words a \
 second and pauses a quarter second at every full stop, so **count the words AND \
 count the sentences**:
 
-      duration ≥ words ÷ {words_per_second:.1f} + {sentence_pause} × sentences + \
+      duration ≥ words ÷ {words_per_second:g} + {sentence_pause} × sentences + \
 {rounded_pad}
 
   The second term is the one that catches people out. "Witness identities. \
@@ -196,9 +196,9 @@ not a fast line, it is three quarters of a second of silence on top. Two lines \
 of the same length do not take the same time if one of them is chopped.
 
   Worked, on the example below: shot 1 speaks twelve words in one sentence, so \
-12 ÷ {words_per_second:.1f} + {sentence_pause} + {rounded_pad} = 5.1, and it \
+12 ÷ {words_per_second:g} + {sentence_pause} + {rounded_pad} = 5.1, and it \
 declares 5.5. Shot 4 speaks thirteen words in two sentences, so 13 ÷ \
-{words_per_second:.1f} + 0.5 + {rounded_pad} = 5.7, and it declares 6.0. Round \
+{words_per_second:g} + 0.5 + {rounded_pad} = 5.7, and it declares 6.0. Round \
 up, never down.
 
   This is the one rule that makes your own arithmetic true: a shot runs for the LONGER of \
diff --git a/tests/test_shortspec.py b/tests/test_shortspec.py
index b01e1db..6a38b52 100644
--- a/tests/test_shortspec.py
+++ b/tests/test_shortspec.py
@@ -166,9 +166,11 @@ def test_the_prompt_gives_a_budget_the_model_can_count():
     w, _ = writer("{}")
     prompt = w.build_prompt("Caso X", "material", None, "X.TEST")
 
-    assert f"{NARRATION_WORDS_PER_SECOND:.1f} words a second" in prompt, \
+    # La constante exacta, no redondeada: el prompt trae una cuenta trabajada, y
+    # con "2.8" el divisor mostrado no reproduce el resultado mostrado.
+    assert f"{NARRATION_WORDS_PER_SECOND:g} words a second" in prompt, \
         "sin el ritmo de la voz no hay cuenta que el modelo pueda hacer"
-    assert f"words ÷ {NARRATION_WORDS_PER_SECOND:.1f}" in prompt
+    assert f"words ÷ {NARRATION_WORDS_PER_SECOND:g}" in prompt
     assert f"{NARRATION_WORD_BUDGET} words" in prompt