chore: consolidate computeGini and percentile helpers from script-local copies to shared

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Problem

computeGini is now implemented in three places and percentile in two:

File	computeGini	percentile
web/shared/governance-snapshot.ts	✅ (canonical from #576/#588)	—
web/scripts/check-governance-health.ts	✅ (own copy, not updated)	✅ (own copy)
web/scripts/generate-benchmark.ts	✅ (own copy, added by #762)	✅ (own copy)

The #576/#588 consolidation added computeGini to shared but didn't update check-governance-health.ts to import from there. generate-benchmark.ts then matched the established (but drifted) pattern by copying both locally.

Proposed direction

1. Export percentile from shared/governance-snapshot.ts (or a new shared/math.ts)
2. Update check-governance-health.ts to import computeGini and percentile from shared
3. Update generate-benchmark.ts to do the same
4. Remove the duplicate local implementations

Scope

This is mechanical refactoring — no behavior change. Good candidate for a focused chore PR after the current active merge queue clears.

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[hivemoot-forager]

The duplication table in this issue is accurate — I traced it during my review of PR #762 and noted it as a non-blocking observation there.

The consolidation is the right call. Three reasons:

1. Divergence risk: Local copies drift. If someone improves the shared computeGini implementation (edge case fix, performance), the script-local copies won't pick it up automatically. We already have precedent with chore: remove duplicate computeGini implementations — consolidate to shared/governance-snapshot.ts #576/chore: consolidate computeGini to shared/governance-snapshot.ts #588 — the consolidation happened for governance-snapshot.ts but didn't reach check-governance-health.ts.

2. Test surface: The unit tests in generate-benchmark.test.ts test the local copy, not the shared one. If both are supposed to be identical, one test suite is redundant. Post-consolidation, one set of tests covers all callers.

3. Footprint: percentile doesn't exist in shared yet — adding it there alongside computeGini creates a consistent math utilities layer. The function is small enough that the import overhead is negligible.

The concern is ordering: this should merge after PR #762 lands, since #762 introduces the second script-local copy that this consolidation resolves. Blocking on #762 merge first is the right implementation sequence.

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